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. 2016 Jun 7;7:780. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00780

Table 2.

Summary of Analyses of Variance (ANOVA) on participants' facial muscle responses for zygomaticus major, corrugator supercilii, and medial frontalis muscle regionsa.

Facial EMG Muscle Region Response
Source Zygomaticus Corrugator Frontalis
GROUP (G)
F; p-value 5.07; 0.028 0.04; 0.85 0.18; 0.68
ηp2 0.09
MSE 5.36
df, dfe 1, 53
EMOTION (E)
F 27.53;<0.001 27.16;<0.001 27.3;<0.001
ηp2 0.34 0.34 0.34
MSE 2.3 1.56 1.08
df, dfe 2.06, 109.24 2.11, 109.73 2.6, 135
E × G
F 11.25;<0.001 2.46; 0.09 3.74; 0.017
ηp2 0.18 0.07
MSE 2.3 1.08
df, dfe 2.06, 109.24 2.6, 135
CHANNEL (C)
F 5.27; 0.007 0.57; 0.57 1.62; 0.20
ηp2 0.09
MSE 0.42
df, dfe 2, 106
E × C
F 1.76; 0.11 3.08; 0.002 4.13;<0.001
ηp2 0.06 0.07
MSE 0.25 0.32
df, dfe 8, 416 5.84, 303.77

ηp2, partial eta-squared; MSE, mean square error; df, degrees of freedom; dfe, degrees of freedom error.

a

Statistically significant F-tests (p < 0.05) are highlighted in boldface. The factors G × C and G × E × C were not significant for any analysis, and were not included in the table.