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. 2013 Feb 7;3(1):133–142. doi: 10.3390/bs3010133

Table 2.

Means and differences among means for the three journals on the nine title variables (2000–2010)1,2.

Title Journal
Variable JCP IJCP JEP F2.30 p η2
DAL Pleasantness 1.829 a 1.818 a 1.785 b 7.23 0.003 0.325
DAL Activation 1.734 a 1.742 a 1.704 b 5.54 0.009 0.270
DAL Concreteness 1.701 a 1.640 b 1.563 c 30.49 < 0.001 0.670
Word Length 5.276 a 5.998 b 6.175 c 86.08 < 0.001 0.852
Word Number 17.787 a 13.025 b 12.611 b 60.56 < 0.001 0.901
Root “Behav” Words 0.007 a 0.015 b 0.004 a 12.79 < 0.001 0.460
Cognitive Words 0.014 0.015 0.017 0.28 0.755 0.019
Vertebrate Words 0.047 a 0.034 b 0.026 b 9.61 0.001 0.390
Invertebrate Words 0.003 0.003 0.000 2.28 0.119 0.132

1 JCP: Journal of Comparative Psychology; IJCP: International Journal of Comparative Psychology; JEP: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes; 2 Any two means in the same row with different superscripts (a, b, or c) are significantly different according to Student-Newman-Keuls post hoc tests.