Can verbal suggestions strengthen the effects of a relaxation intervention?

• Lemmy Schakel ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: l.schakel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl

  Affiliations Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6437-3525

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• Dieuwke S. Veldhuijzen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Henriët van Middendorp,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Meriem Manaï,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Stefanie H. Meeuwis,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

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• Pieter Van Dessel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Andrea W. M. Evers

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Institute of Psychology, Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands

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