Participants
A group of 26 healthy, female participants were recruited at Utrecht University campus to take part in the study. To avoid hormonal fluctuations during the cycle, only women using combined oral contraceptives (OCs; i.e., containing ethinylestradiol and levonorgestrel; Microgynon 30) were included in the study, and no scans were performed during the hormone‐free interval of the OC regimen (Montoya & Bos, The experimental protocol was approved by the ethics committee of the University Medical Centre Utrecht, in accordance with the latest declaration of Helsinki. All participants gave written informed consent prior to participation in the study and received payment afterward. Due to technical issues during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) acquisition (artifacts in functional scans, 