Affective conflict arises when stimuli or stimulus features of opposing valence are processed. A prototypical example is a negative picture paired with a positive word. Kozlik and Fischer (2020) hypothesized that emotional ingroup and outgroup faces can also create an affective conflict, when the emotional expression and the affective connotation of group membership mismatch, e.g., a happy outgroup member (but see Wentura & Paulus, 2022). To further test the hypothesis of an affective conflict, we used different stimulus configurations of assumed affective conflict and tested for congruence sequence effects across stimulus configurations. Two stimulus configurations were presented in random order: (a) pictures of ingroup vs. outgroup persons displaying positive vs. negative facial expressions and (b) pictures of ingroup vs. outgroup persons with neutral facial expressions superimposed by positive vs. negative words. In all trials, the task was to indicate the group membership of the depicted person. Although these stimulus configurations hold apparent differences, both contain two distinct affective features that either match or mismatch, and thus can result in an affective conflict. If the two different stimulus configurations contain the identical source of (affective) conflict, the congruence sequence effects should not only be observed in a repetition of stimulus configuration but also when stimulus configurations switch between trials. Currently, we are still in the process of data collection, but the complete data will be presented at the conference.