Table 4.

Partial Spearman’s rank order correlations controlling for familiarity between measures of complexity, arousal and hedonic tone in response to IAPS pictures, cartoons and paintings.

Stimulus type	Group	Measure	Complexity	Hedonic tone
IAPS	Beauty	Hedonic tone	0.10
	Pleasantness		-0.04
	Liking		-0.08
N = 96	Beauty	Arousal	0.30**	N/A
df = 93	Pleasantness		0.26*	N/A
	Liking		0.37***	N/A
Cartoons	Beauty	Hedonic tone	0.13
	Pleasantness		-0.14
	Liking		0.16
N = 96	Beauty	Arousal	0.23*	N/A
df = 93	Pleasantness		0.24*	N/A
	Liking		0.37***	N/A
Paintings	Beauty	Hedonic tone	0.26*
	Pleasantness		-0.16
	Liking		0.02
N = 94	Beauty	Arousal	0.46***	-0.07
df = 91	Pleasantness		0.46***	-0.56***
	Liking		0.49***	-0.23*

*p < 0.05, ^∗∗p < 0.01, ^∗∗∗p < 0.001; df, degrees of freedom. The relationships between the respective measures of hedonic tone and arousal were quadratic in IAPS pictures and cartoons and are thus not reported.