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. 2022 Jul 8;13:894034. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.894034

TABLE 1.

Fourteen sound stimuli utilized in Experiment 1 and Experiment 2.

Sound number Sound name Category Pair label
1 Tool scraping Neutral N1
2 Ringing church bells Neutral N2
3 Squeezing spray bottle Neutral N3
4 Sink draining Neutral N4
5 Stirring cereal Neutral N5
6 Woodpecker tapping Neutral N6
7 Nose sniffling Misophonic M3
8 Slurping a beverage Misophonic M4
9 Chewing food Misophonic M5
10 Clicking a pen Misophonic M6
11 Fork scraping a plate Unpleasant U1
12 Ringing fire alarm Unpleasant U2
13 Wind blowing Pleasant P7
14 Stream flowing Pleasant P7

The emotional category is noted for each sound, with six sounds belonging to the neutral category, four sounds belonging to the misophonic category, and two sounds each belonging to the unpleasant and pleasant categories. Each sound has a pair label to represent each pairing between a Neutral and Misophonic/Unpleasant (negative) sound that share at least one causal property. Each label is structured as C# (C, valence category; #, the pair number). In following tables, the pair label is added to each sound name.