Physiological and subjective arousal to prospective mental imagery: A mechanism for behavioral change?

PLoS One · 2023 · PMC10715665 · PMID 38085715

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Main effects of emotional valence According to the pre-registered statistical analysis plan, we first examined the main effect of emotional valence on our dependent measures using ANOVAs with emotional valence (positive, neutral, negative) as independent variable: Skin conductance The repeated-measures ANOVA revealed a near-significant main effect of emotional valence, F(2,104) = 2.80, p = 0.07, η 2 = 0.05 ( Fig 2A , S2 – S4 Tables).

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Although the results for physiological arousal did not quite reach statistical significance, responses showed a similar pattern (see Fig 2 ).

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