Table 4.
Correlations between gaze duration and participants' encounter risk and fear ratings.
| Gaze duration | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spider vs. Bird | Spider | Bird | |||||||
| rPhobic | rControl | Z | rPhobic | rControl | Z | rPhobic | rControl | Z | |
| ENCOUNTER RISK RATING | |||||||||
| Spider vs. Bird | 0.29 | −0.08 | 1.00 | ||||||
| Spider | 0.46 | 0.74 | 3.83 | ||||||
| Bird | 0.43 | 0.61 | 3.09 | ||||||
| FEAR RATING | |||||||||
| Spider vs. Bird | −0.02 | 0.40 | 1.17 | ||||||
| Spider | 0.29 | 0.01 | 0.76 | ||||||
| Bird | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Snake vs. Bird | Snake | ||||||||
| rPhobic | rControl | Z | rPhobic | rControl | Z | ||||
| ENCOUNTER RISK RATING | |||||||||
| Snake vs. Bird | 0.24 | −0.09 | 0.89 | ||||||
| Snake | 0.45 | 0.76 | 3.92 | ||||||
| FEAR RATING | |||||||||
| Snake vs. Bird | 0.15 | 0.11 | 0.11 | ||||||
| Snake | 0.16 | 0.12 | −0.75 | ||||||
N = 17 in each group. Bold: p < 0.05 (two-tailed); italics: p < 0.10 (two-tailed). Z, Fisher's Z transformation, testing the difference between the two group correlations.