Table 2.
Expression | Control group | Violent offenders | |||||||
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Reaction time | Accuracy | Reaction time | Accuracy | ||||||
Face | Body | Mean | SE | Mean | SE | Mean | SE | Mean | SE |
Anger | Anger | 1,055.96 | 50.43 | 0.93 | 0.02 | 1,070.23 | 52.39 | 0.90 | 0.02 |
Fear | 1,335.40 | 63.21 | 0.43**** | 0.05 | 1,270.90 | 89.58 | 0.14 | 0.03 | |
Happy | 1,358.74 | 57.43 | 0.59**** | 0.05 | 1,495.84 | 76.64 | 0.19 | 0.04 | |
Fear | Anger | 1,290.47 | 68.26 | 0.44* | 0.06 | 1,108.27 | 65.36 | 0.61 | 0.06 |
Fear | 1,036.18 | 50.75 | 0.88 | 0.02 | 1,038.79 | 52.54 | 0.88 | 0.02 | |
Happy | 1,253.37 | 55.75 | 0.79 | 0.04 | 1,217.57 | 58.96 | 0.70 | 0.05 | |
Happy | Anger | 834.15* | 56.78 | 0.64**** | 0.05 | 1,065.44 | 73.12 | 0.23 | 0.04 |
Fear | 1,048.49 | 95.57 | 0.84* | 0.07 | 972.66 | 115.54 | 0.56 | 0.10 | |
Happy | 810.19 | 50.46 | 0.92*** | 0.02 | 890.22 | 53.03 | 0.81 | 0.03 |
The most significant difference between the offender and control group is found in the condition where happy faces were paired with an aggressive posture (third row from below)
* p < .05
** p < .01
*** p < .005
**** p < .001