“…In contexts such as the one in our study, where an emotional stimulus will have a short-term disruptive effect, distraction or mental suppression may be adaptive strategies. However, mental suppression has previously been shown to have delayed and potentially adverse consequences in a number of settings ( Wang et al., 2020 ), including sounds ( Kolbeinsson et al., 2022 ). When regulating emotion in response to recurrently encountered negatively valued stimuli, these strategies may not have the desired effects, and other strategies (e.g., acceptance) are, therefore, likely to be more adaptive.…”