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. 2019 Jan 9;39(2):307–320. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1276-18.2018

Table 2.

Results of the Affective Bias task (Bland et al., 2016) and MET (Dziobek et al., 2008)a

Placebo (% correct) MDMA (% correct) t statistic p
Affective Bias
    Nonemotion Control 85.8 (12.1) 90.6 (6.2) 1.64 0.120
    Happy 90.6 (9.5) 91.4 (6.1) 0.33 0.749
    Sad 71.7 (15.4) 71.7 (21.9) 0.07 0.946
    Fear 79.2 (13.7) 70.8 (16.9) −2.21 0.041
    Anger 60.3 (13.1) 53.1 (15.6) −2.25 0.038
MET
    Cognitive Empathy
        Total 73.0 (6.6) 71.4 (8.0) −1.00 0.330
        Positive Valence 77.9 (6.0) 74.7 (9.3) −1.51 0.148
        Negative Valence 68.1 (11.3) 68.1 (10.6) <0.01 1.00
    Affective Empathy (rating out of 9)
        Positive Valence 5.5 (1.1) 5.8 (1.1) 0.91 0.377
        Negative Valence 4.4 (1.9) 4.5 (2.3) 0.285 0.779

aData are mean (SD). Post hoc p values are uncorrected for multiple comparisons.