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. 2024 Jan 4;14:1321053. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1321053

Table 2.

Mean ratings of fear, disgust, and anger for individual categories of threats as described by short vignettes (7-point scale, 1 = not at all, 7 = extremely strong).

Category Mean fear Fear SD Mean disgust Disgust SD Mean anger Anger SD
Ancestral fear 4.330 2.13 2.103 1.78 2.119 1.80
Modern fear 4.820 2.02 1.886 1.62 3.095 2.14
Pandemic fear 3.930 2.08 1.916 1.59 2.659 2.03
Ancestral disgust 2.002 1.67 4.407 2.03 3.503 2.17
Modern disgust 3.900 2.16 3.167 2.07 4.432 2.15
Pandemic disgust 2.497 1.89 3.749 2.06 3.456 2.12

The strongest emotion in each category is indicated in bold, standard deviations (SD) are also provided.