Experiment 1.

Additional information of participants. Additional Information of Participants Before the main experiment participants completed the state version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, STAI-S [55, 56], the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, PANAS [57], the Pain Sensitivity Questionnaire, PSQ [58], the Pain Catastrophizing Scale, PCS [59, 60]. After the experiment the following questionnaires were assessed: the Resilience Scale, RS-25 [61], the trait version of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, STAI-T [55, 56], the Life-Orientation-Test Revised, LOT-R [62, 63], the Expressions of Spirituality, ASP2.1 [64, 65], the Beck Depression-Inventory, BDI-II [66, 67], the Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward, SPSRQ [68], the Experience in close relationships- revised ECR-RD [69, 70] and the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3, ASI3 [71] was assessed. In general, the two groups did not differ in their test scores (Table 1) apart from their PSQ (p = .03), where the threat group had higher scores and the subscale of sensitivity to punishment scale of the SPSRQ (p = .02), where the safety group had higher scores. The mean questionnaire scores and standard deviations are shown in S1 Table.

(DOCX)