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Published in final edited form as: Psychophysiology. 2016 Sep 6;53(12):1900–1908. doi: 10.1111/psyp.12757

Table 2.

Emotional Modulation of Startle Blink and Postauricular Reflexes by Picture Content

Picture content	Startle blink 105 dB			Postauricular 105 dB			Postauricular 65 dB			Postauricular correlations 105 dB/65 dB
Picture content	Mean	(SE)	d	Mean	(SE)	d	Mean	(SE)	d	Postauricular correlations 105 dB/65 dB
Pleasant	−0.092^*	(0.041)	−0.25	0.209^**	(0.070)	0.33	0.117^*	(0.050)	0.25	.49^***
adventure	−0.025	(0.059)	−0.05	−0.038	(0.096)	−0.04	0.036	(0.037)	0.11	.27^*
erotic	−0.160^**	(0.059)	−0.30	0.366^**	(0.112)	0.36	0.100	(0.058)	0.19	.32^**
food	−0.079	(0.056)	−0.15	0.261^*	(0.099)	0.28	0.114^*	(0.045)	0.28	.49^***
nurturant	−0.090	(0.057)	−0.17	0.234^*	(0.108)	0.23	0.155^**	(0.058)	0.29	.41^***
Aversive	0.086^*	(0.040)	0.24	0.040	(0.066)	0.07	0.061	(0.045)	0.15	.46^***
disgust	−0.112^*	(0.051)	−0.24	−0.123	(0.090)	−0.17	0.044	(0.041)	0.12	.19
mutilation	0.008	(0.057)	0.02	0.446^***	(0.098)	0.49	0.083	(0.050)	0.18	.28^*
threat	0.408^***	(0.083)	0.54	−0.212^*	(0.099)	−0.25	0.004	(0.037)	0.01	.32^**
victim	0.040	(0.060)	0.07	0.075	(0.108)	0.07	0.035	(0.045)	0.09	.30^**

Note. Ns range from 80–83. Scores represent the difference between reflexes during pictures with the labeled content and reflexes during neutral pictures. Effect sizes of at least 0.2 SD are presented in bold.

p <.05.

^**

p <.01.

^***

p <.001.