“…In this way, resources are drawn away from the ongoing task, and the performance is disrupted (Buodo, Sarlo, & Palomba, ; Schimmack, ; Kennedy et al, 2015). In our case, the choice of an orthogonal paradigm is also useful to avoid confounds due to different strategies of emotional reappraisal (Gutentag, Halperin, Porat, Bigman, & Tamir, ) and to reduce the habituation effect (Carretié, Hinojosa, & Mercado, ) while solving an externally focused task. Neutral and negative stimuli were defined through a dimensional approach to the study of emotions (Hamann, ; Russell, ), and experimental conditions were individualized to account for interindividual differences in the subjective perception of emotional stimuli (Lindquist & Barrett, ).…”