Table 3.
Means and standard deviations for emotional reactivity in response to negative, neutral and positive images on the International Affective Picture System task, and for reaction time and error rate on the spatial cueing task.
| Controls m (sd) n = 19 |
Social phobia m (sd) n = 60 |
|
|---|---|---|
| IAPS emotional reactivity task | ||
| Negative affect | ||
| Negative images | 10.9 (4.9) | 13.8 (5.0) |
| Neutral images | 5.4 (.8) | 5.8 (1.3) |
| Positive affect | ||
| Positive images | 14.3 (5.5) | 13.2 (4.4) |
| Neutral images | 9.2 (3.8) | 8.1 (3.4) |
| Spatial cueing attentional bias taska | ||
| Object | ||
| Reaction time (ms) | 375 (40) | 383 (48) |
| Percent incorrect | 14.1 (2.5) | 14.9 (2.4) |
| Anger | ||
| Reaction time (ms) | 376 (41) | 384 (47) |
| Number incorrect | 14.1 (2.1) | 14.5 (2.6) |
| Disapproval | ||
| Reaction time (ms) | 376 (38) | 383 (50) |
| Number incorrect | 14.9 (2.9) | 16.0 (2.8) |
a
n = 18 for healthy controls and n = 53 for social phobia group due to missing data.