Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sci. 2014 Sep 5;25(10):1943–1948. doi: 10.1177/0956797614547706

Figure 3.

Figure 3

A) Study 1 results: Individuals with a greater chronic desire for connections (i.e., higher NTB scores) displayed lower threshold parameters, indicating they were more likely to perceive animacy when fewer definitively human cues were present. B) Study 2 results: Socially disconnected participants (n = 22) displayed lower thresholds for animacy detection than did socially connected participants (n = 20). Figure depicts means and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of threshold parameters; the difference between the group means, along with its 95% CI, is depicted on a floating difference axis on the right.