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Table 1 Valence and arousal ratings

From: Event-related potentials when identifying or color-naming threatening schematic stimuli in spider phobic and non-phobic individuals

 

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Spider Phobics

Social Phobics

Rating

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

Valence

      

   Spider

5.46

1.65

3.30

1.52

4.59

0.69

   Flower

6.05

1.45

5.29

1.27

5.39

0.77

Arousal

      

   Spider

2.74

1.42

5.30

1.63

3.27

1.31

   Flower

2.24

1.10

3.28

1.25

2.93

1.38

  1. Mean (M) valence and arousal ratings and standard deviations (SD) for schematic spider and flower stimuli for each group. The SAM scale [23, 43, 79] ranges from 1 to 9, with 1 = highly unpleasant/low arousing and 9 = highly pleasant/highly arousing.
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BMC Psychiatry

ISSN: 1471-244X

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