Fig. 3: Task effects on emotion ratings in study 2.

a Emotion ratings, separate for pride and happiness, high and medium control as well as outcome valence. b Scatterplots depict reactivity to WIN vs noWIN outcomes for happiness (left) and pride (right) in dependence of internal control condition (x-axis: HC; y-axis: MC). Histograms in top right corners visualize the differences in emotion reactivity between HC and MC. HC high control, MC medium control. d = Cohen’s d. Values in brackets represent 90% confidence intervals for d. The center line of boxplots depicts the median, the upper and lower box borders are the 25th and 75th percentile, and the length of the whiskers is 1.5 times the interquartile range. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.