Table 3. Self-Reported Fear During Each Phase of the Fear Conditioning Task as a Function of Trauma Exposure (n=90).
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Preconditioning |
Conditioning |
Extinction |
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CS+ |
CS− |
CS+ |
CS− |
CS+ |
CS− |
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| Self-reported feara | M | (SD) | M | (SD) | M | (SD) | M | (SD) | M | (SD) | M | (SD) |
| Total sample | 9.40 | (4.47) | 8.60 | (4.32) | 19.27 | (6.98) | 7.66 | (4.67) | 12.03 | (5.65) | 8.59 | (4.37) |
| Trauma-exposed | 9.97 | (3.90) | 8.80 | (3.86) | 18.54 | (7.14) | 7.89 | (5.49) | 12.44 | (6.96) | 9.44 | (4.38) |
| Controls | 9.04 | (4.80) | 8.46 | (4.62) | 19.74 | (6.90) | 7.52 | (4.11) | 11.78 | (4.11) | 8.06 | (4.32) |
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Self-reported fear is a composite of three items reflecting how much participants feared, liked (reverse-scored), and found the CS+ and CS− unpleasant after each phase of the task using a Likert scale ranging from 0 (none) to 10 (extreme).