failed to reach significancep = 0.140
1 e ); very similar findings were obtained when using participants' trait anxiety levels (high vs low trait anxiety scores, p = 0.026, two-tailed), although this is not too surprising because there was a modest correlation between state and trait scores ( r = 0.435, p = 0.055), although the interaction contrast for this effect failed to reach significance (condition [pain encoding, pain nonencoding] × group [high anxiety, low anxiety] interaction: p = 0.140).