Table 4.

Mean Ratings (and Standard Deviations) of Discrepant Items in Experiment 3 as a Function of Disturbance and Paralinguistic Ambiguity

		Disturbance
Lexical content	Paralanguage	With	Without
Ambiguous items
You’re doing a great job	angry	1.74(1.21)	2.12(0.97)
I think that’s a real good idea	angry	1.59 (0.86)	2.44 (1.02)
Oh look this is beautiful	angry	1.21 (0.54)	1.94(1.15)
Do that once more and you’ll be really sorry	happy	4.47 (0.82)	4.29 (0.76)
Unambiguous items
Great this is just what you’ve been wanting	angry	2.26(1.54)	2.68(1.63)
You’re growing so fast	angry	2.67 (1.70)	3.23(1.42)
What makes you think you’ll get away with that?	happy	3.68(1.07)	3.12(1.14)
You’ll never behave yourself	happy	3.73(1.21)	3.67 (0.94)
You’ve probably done something wrong again	happy	3.44(1.05)	3.50 (0.96)

Note: A rating of 1 = really happy and 5 = really mad.