TABLE 3.
Mean Facereader arousal and skin conductance (standard deviations in parenthesis, 95% confidence intervals in square brackets, difference to baseline in arbitrary units [AU] or microsiemens [μS]), separately for time windows and stimulus categories.
(3A) Facereader Arousal [AU] | ||||||
Pleasant | Neutral | Unpleasant | F (2,84) | p-value | η2 | |
1st second | 0.37 (1.63) [−0.04; 0.88] | 0.14 (1.78) [−0.32; 0.70] | 0.48 (1.96) [−0.01; 1.10] | 2.30 | 0.111 | 0.05 |
2nd second | 0.87 (2.81) [0.14; 1.74] | 0.91 (3.36) [0.04; 1.98] | 1.33 (2.95) [0.55; 2.26] | 1.37 | 0.261 | 0.03 |
3rd second | 1.19 (3.55) [0.22; 2.28] | 1.66 (4.00) [0.59; 2.89] | 2.36 (3.98) [1.28; 3.49] | 3.77 | 0.031 | 0.08 |
4th second | 1.53 (3.62) [0.54; 2.62] | 1.97 (4.00) [0.87; 3.17] | 2.81 (4.64) [1.56; 4.27] | 3.82 | 0.033 | 0.08 |
5th second | 1.25 (3.72) [0.25; 2.36] | 1.05 (3.70) [0.02; 2.17] | 2.33 (4.47) [1.13; 3.74] | 3.28 | 0.049 | 0.07 |
(3B) Skin Conductance [μS] | ||||||
Pleasant | Neutral | Unpleasant | F (2,84) | p-value | η2 | |
1st second | −0.00 (0.01) [−0.01; −0.00] | −0.00 (0.02) [−0.00; 0.00] | −0.00 (0.01) [−0.01; −0.00] | 1.28 | 0.280 | 0.03 |
2nd second | −0.01 (0.03) [0.01; 0.00] | 0.00 (0.03) [−0.01; 0.01] | −0.01 (0.02) [−0.01; 0.02] | 1.26 | 0.285 | 0.03 |
3rd second | 0.01 (0.05) [−0.00; 0.03] | 0.00 (0.05) [−0.01; 0.02] | 0.00 (0.02) [−0.01; 0.01] | 1.11 | 0.331 | 0.03 |
4th second | 0.03 (0.09) [0.01; 0.06] | 0.00 (0.04) [−0.02; 0.01] | 0.02 (0.06) [0.00; 0.04] | 3.68 | 0.036 | 0.08 |
5th second | 0.02 (0.08) [0.00; 0.05] | −0.02 (0.04) [−0.03; −0.01] | 0.01 (0.06) [−0.00; 0.08] | 5.11 | 0.011 | 0.11 |
Statistics correspond to ANOVA effects of the stimulus category.