Dataset for the study "Bound to a spider without its web: Task-type modulates the retrieval of affective information in subsequent responses", to-be-published in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. For further information please refer to the aforementioned paper. The aggregated data files can be analyzed by using the SPSS-Syntax available under "Code for: Bound to a spider without its web: Task-type modulates the retrieval of affective information in subsequent responses".