Table 3.
Descriptive statistics of participants’ performance in the pragmatic task.
| Communicative acts | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measures | Sincere | Deceit | Irony | |||
| SCZ | HC | SCZ | HC | SCZ | HC | |
| Hits/accuracy | 9.75 (2.31) | 11.25 (1.29) | 7.96 (3.3) | 9.88 (1.60) | 6.84 (2.94) | 10.02 (2.27) |
| False alarms | 2.3 (3.24) | 1.0 (1.59) | 4.17 (2.85) | 1.71 (2.22) | 2.80 (2.50) | 1.54 (1.38) |
| Responses not given | 0.63 (0.92) | 0.21 (0.41) | 0.79 (1.14) | 0.21 (0.41) | 0.88 (1.03) | 0.17 (0.38) |
| Correct rejections | 21.75 (3.3) | 23 (1.59) | 19.92 (2.80) | 22.3 (2.22) | 21.29 (2.53) | 22.42 (1.38) |
For each subject we report the mean number and standard deviation of hits (correct responses), false alarms (incorrect responses), responses not given, and correct rejections for each category (i.e., sincere, deceitful, and ironic communicative acts) in the two groups (SCZ and HC).