Understanding animal fears: a comparison of the cognitive vulnerability and harm-looming models

BMC Psychiatry

Table 1 Reliability coefficients for all scales for all animals

	Danger^a	Disgust^a	Looming.^b	Negative Evaluation^a	Uncont.^c	Unpred.^c
High-fear animals
Spiders	0.86	0.78	0.67	0.67	0.81	0.73
Cockroaches	0.79	0.78	0.62	0.53	0.78	0.81
Snakes	0.80	0.84	0.65	0.69	0.93	0.77
Rats	0.81	0.88	0.53	0.66	0.88	0.75
Low-fear animals
Ducks	0.68	0.68	0.53	0.53	0.66	0.75
Rabbits	0.70	0.72	0.48	0.56	0.66	0.72
Cats	0.71	0.76	0.35	0.69	0.77	0.75
Guinea Pigs	0.72	0.80	0.56	0.53	0.67	0.72

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