Participants
psychiatric
SHOCKS
Thirty-five Israeli participants (mean age 24.43 years, 11 men) completed the study. Inclusion criteria included being 18–35 years old, speaking native Hebrew, and having normal vision. Exclusion criteria included being diagnosed with ADHD/anxiety/mental/neurological/cardiological disorder, and taking psychiatric medications. Two participants were excluded from data analysis because they disclosed the placebo induction manipulation; during debriefing, they explicitly told the experimenter that shocks intensity differed between the two conditioning blocks. One additional participant was excluded because it turned out she was not a Hebrew native speaker (i.e., one of the a-priori inclusion criteria for participating). Thus, the final sample consisted of thirty-two Israeli, native Hebrew-speaking participants (mean age 24.31 years, 10 men). Most participants (29 out of 32) were students at Tel-Aviv University, among them 17 psychology students.