Time of effortful persistence as function of experimental manipulations (instruction and induction).

<p>Participants were required to ignore emotional task-irrelevant sound while performing a mentally challenging task (mental arithmetic). Induction manipulation (attention control vs. mindfulness induction) followed the suppression manipulation (suppression vs. no instructions) in the experiment; thus, these are the delayed effects of suppression. Error bar denotes standard error of mean. *  =  <i>p</i><.05; <i>ns</i>  =  non-significant at specified alpha level (.05).</p