Table 5. Descriptive Statistics and Correlations between Variables in Study 2.

Variable	M (SD)	Correlations
		(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Identification with the group of gamers (1)	2.87 (1.32)	1.00
Negative evaluations of the confutative study (2)	3.44 (0.91)	−0.04	1.00
Negative evaluations of the confirmatory study (3)	3.66 (1.02)	0.29***	0.15**	1.00
Biased evaluations a (4)	0.22 (1.26)	0.27***	−0.60***	0.70***	1.00

Notes. N = 655.

^a Difference score: negative evaluations of the confirmatory study minus negative evaluations of the confutative study

*p < .05

**p < .01

***p < .001.