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. 2016 Feb 24;10:25. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00025

Table 6.

Association between tasks and demographic characteristics.

Domain and task (N = 200) Test score used Age (r) IQ (r) Years in education (r) Gender (t)
EMOTION
Facial recognition Face: affective bias 0.27* −0.16 −0.08 0.52
Eyes: affective bias 0.37* −0.09 −0.01 2.29
Emotional intensity Increasing affective bias −0.01 −0.01 −0.03 −1.30
Decreasing affective bias 0.05 −0.05 −0.03 2.43
Face affective go/no-go Affective bias (RT) −0.01 −0.06 −0.09 −0.19
Word affective go/no-go Affective bias (RT) −0.11 −0.01 −0.01 1.23
Emotional memory Retrieval affective bias −0.01 0.04 0.04 −0.33
REWARD/MOTIVATION
Reinforcement learning Win learning rate −0.02 0.02 0.13 −1.69
Loss learning rate −0.07 −0.04 0.03 −0.64
Monetary incentive reward Win-neutral RT 0.01 −0.12 −0.04 −1.83
Loss-neutral RT 0.02 −0.00 −0.04 −1.74
Cambridge gambling task Win risk adjustment −0.12 0.16 0.08 0.42
Loss risk adjustment −0.25* 0.27* 0.18 1.21
Progressive ratioa Breakpoint 0.07 −0.07 −0.09 −0.35
Post reinforcement pause 0.23 −0.32 −0.03 −0.67
IMPULSIVITY
4 CSRTTb Motivational index −0.14 0.01 0.14 0.31
Delay discounting Delay discounting −0.16 0.27* 0.24* 1.28
Probability discounting 0.03 −0.05 0.11 0.69
SOCIAL COGNITION
Moral emotions Agent guilt ratings 0.05 −0.02 −0.04 −4.02*$
Feeling bad ratings −0.12 0.11 0.14 1.96
Information preference Proportion thoughts −0.08 −0.05 −0.13 0.84
Affective bias in outcome 0.07 0.01 0.07 −0.54
Prisoners dilemma Average steal rate −0.02 0.04 0.06 0.57
Ultimatum game Risk adjustment −0.13 0.13 0.09 −0.66
Average value of offers proposed 0.19 −0.08 −0.09 0.22
Inference task Effect of jelly probability −0.16 0.15 0.18 −0.38
Effect of computer choice −0.19 0.15 0.18 −0.70

Results show Pearson correlations (r) or t-statistics (t) from independent t-test.

*

p < 0.002; N = 200.

a

Only 78 participants were included in the correlation analyses for the Progressive ratio task due to an update to the task part way through the study.

b

Only 175 participants were included in the correlation analyses for the 4CSRTT due to technical failure.

$

Females showed greater guilt ratings.