Correlations between 'danger', 'threat', 'pleasantness' and 'want for experience' ratings.

Correlations between 'danger', 'threat', 'pleasantness' and 'want for experience' ratings.

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When evaluating ambiguous situations, humans sometimes use their behavior as a source of information (behavior-as-information effect) and interpret safety behaviors as evidence for danger. Accordingly, we hypothesized that eating disorder safety behaviors (restrictive eating, body checking, etc.) might aggravate fear and anxiety in individuals with...

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... we calculated bivariate correlations between 'danger', 'threat', 'pleasantness' and 'want for experience' ratings. Based on the high correlations (see Table 2), we combined 'danger' and 'threat' ratings into an average score (from now on called 'threat' ratings). We tested our hypotheses by running several LMMs with 'threat', 'pleasantness' and 'want for experience' ratings as dependent variables. ...