The Paradox of Fiction Revisited-Improvised Fictional and Real-Life Social Rejections Evoke Associated and Relatively Similar Psychophysiological Responses.

Brain Sci · 2021 · PMC8615758 · PMID 34827462

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nearly significantp = 0.057so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

When we combined the rejection types, however, the mean EDA showed a nearly significant, positive association ( p = 0.057) between real-life and fictional rejections.

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