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Table 3.

Correlations Between Masked and Unmasked Positive and Negative Biases, Neuroticism, Extraversion, Trait Anxiety, Depression, and State-Anxiety and Cortisol at Baseline and Immediately After Laboratory and Exam-Related Stress

	Mask NBias	Mask PBias	NoMask NBias	NoMask PBias	N	E	Trait Anx	BDI	State (T1)	Cort (T1)	State (T2)	Cort (T2)	State (T3)
Masked NBias
Masked PBias	−.09
Unmasked NBias	−.08	−.16
Unmasked PBias	−.13	.15	−.21^a
N	.22^a	−.22^a	−.15	−.02
E	.11	.22^a	.00	.03	−.30^b
Trait Anxiety	.17	−.19^a	−.01	−.02	.76^c	−.49^c
BDI	.05	−.03	−.08	−.10	.64^c	−.29^b	.72^c
State-anxiety (T1)	.11	−.07	.00	.03	.51^c	−.23^a	.62^c	.42^c
Cortisol (T1)	.27^b	−.10	.07	−.13	.36^c	−.17	.30^b	.25^b	.15
State-anxiety (T2)	.03	−.25^a	.12	.09	.54^c	−.10	.47^c	.44^c	.66^c	.13
Cortisol (T2)	.46^c	−.15	.15	−.17	.28^a	−.11	.30^b	.27^a	.19	.79^c	.15
State-anxiety (T3)	−.04	−.12	−.23	.13	.30^a	−.24^a	.44^c	.35^b	.41^b	−.11	.25^a	−.03
Cortisol (T3)	.47^c	−.15	.03	−.09	.39^b	−.21	.33^b	.29^a	.18	.76^c	.15	.85^c	−.06

BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; NBias, negative bias; PBias, positive bias; T1, state-anxiety (State) and cortisol (Cort) at baseline; T2, state-anxiety and cortisol immediately after laboratory stress; T3, examination-related stress; N, neuroticism; E, extraversion.

p < .05.

p < .01.

p < .001.