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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2013 Apr 10;88:56–67. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.03.036

Table 5.

Recognition task: Means, standard deviations, and interactions of ethnicity and explanation type on number of correct responses, percentage-of-contamination-relevant-errors (reversed), and sensitivity to contamination content

European American Chinese
Genetic Neurobiological Genetic Neurobiological
Means Standard deviations Means Standard deviations Means Standard deviations Means Standard deviations F p
Number of correct contamination-relevant responses 7.47 1.12 8.10 1.41 7.69 1.19 6.95 1.16 6.36 .014*
Percentage of contamination-relevant errors (reversed) −.50 .22 −.39 .23 −.42 .14 −.57 .19 8.93 .004**
Sensitivity to contamination content 5.65 2.43 6.65 2.62 5.92 1.94 4.48 2.06 6.20 .015*

Note: The F and p values are measures of the interactions between ethnicity and explanation type: df = 80 for all variables. Values under “European American” and “Chinese” are the means and standard deviations of the number of correct responses, percentage of contamination-relevant errors (reversed), and sensitivity to contamination content, by explanation type (genetic vs. non-genetic)

*

p < .05

**

p < .01