Table 1 Percentages of words within hotspots/intrusive memories matching LIWC word categories of interest in linguistic analysis.

LIWC^a word category	Hotspots	Intrusive memories	Example words
LIWC^a word category	%	%	Example words
Relativity	17.23	17.51
Motion	0.87	0.46	Removed
Space	13.61	15.36	Street
Time	2.55	1.74	Young
Perception	3.84	4.17
See	0.69	1.45	Image
Hear	2.94	2.67	Screaming
Feel	0.18	0.06	Pain, feeling
Biological processes	4.88	4.64
Body	1.29	1.28	Bodies, head
Health	3.42	3.01	Hospital, sick
Sexual	0.03	0.00	Naked
Ingestion	0.18	0.35	Dining
Time orientation
Time—past	3.54	1.80	Dies
Time—present	5.24	3.01	Has
Time—future	0.45	0.23	Will, going
Affective processes	5.93	3.01
Positive emotion	0.81	0.35	Party
Negative emotion	5.09	2.67	Ignored
Anxiety	0.84	0.35	Panic
Anger	1.05	0.41	Violent
Sadness	1.05	0.35	Cry
Cognitive processes	3.27	1.97
Insight	0.48	0.35	Memory
Causation	0.45	0.29	Because
Discrepancy	0.33	0.00	Wished
Tentative	0.63	0.52	Seems
Certainty	0.45	0.00	Clear
Differentiation	1.23	0.93	Against

Analysis of hotspots data included 337 discrete hotspots recorded from 70 participants. Analysis of intrusive memories included 296 discrete intrusive memories from 37 participants (only intrusive memories reported by participants in the control group were analysed because the intervention group explored in the wider project the current data was collected in might have influenced intrusion data). Analyses were conducted using the ^aLinguistic inquiry and word count (LIWC 2015) software. % = percentage of words within hotspots/intrusive memories matching LIWC word categories and subcategories. Last column provides examples of words within hotspots/intrusive memories categorised into LIWC word categories. Misclassified words are not presented (e.g., lying, over). For comparison, categories are presented in the same order as Hoppe et al.¹⁶.

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