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The only relationship that approached significance was a negative correlation with Fantasy, suggesting that people with high IA tend not put themselves in the position of characters in books and films, which might perhaps reflect good self/other distinction.

Finally, for fear, the pretend items were significantly more intense overall than the genuine items, t (25) = 5.55, p < 0.001; and for these stimuli even adults could not discriminate authenticity above chance (indeed, they showed a trend in the opposite direction, i.e., toward perceiving the pretend item as more authentic than the genuine one).

These findings are in line with our study, in which anosmic patients revealed statistically significant poorer vividness of mental representations and the hyposmic group showed a trend of reduced vividness of olfactory representations compared to healthy controls.

The APGAR construct exhibited no direct significant effect on the EFBC construct; however, the APGAR construct had a highly significant and positive effect on the first-order independent variables; therefore, its influence on EFBC appears to be fully mediated through the Shared Vision (PNS), Role Clarity (RCL), and Confidence in Management (CON).

In Experiments 3 and 4, in which the identical loudness- and timbre-judgment tasks were conducted while the auditory stimulus was presented only to the left or right ear, the correspondence effect was modulated by the ear to which the stimulus was presented, even though the effect was marginally significant in Experiment 4.

The results demonstrated that task-relevant painful faces had a significant pain information-induced AB effect, whereas task-irrelevant faces showed a near-significant trend of this effect, supporting the notion that pain-related stimuli can influence the temporal dynamics of attention.

Along with a marked trend, the series in Figure 1 exhibits noticeable seasonal fluctuations as well; at the beginning of each year (i.e., after the holiday months), online job searches spike and then fall significantly in February.

Globally, the illustrative time series shown in Figure 1 exhibits a positive trend: The level of the series at the end is systematically higher than at its beginning.

It is more likely that either (a) a negative trend will return the series back to more moderate levels or (b) the series will simply continue at a generally high level.

Modeling trends through regression Modeling an observed trend in a time series through regression is appropriate when the trend is deterministic —i.e., the trend is due to the constant, deterministic effects of a few causal forces (McCleary et al., 1980 , p. 34).

In contrast, mean differences between women and men were highly significant for each measure of perceived ability under challenge in mathematics.

Decision confidence did not change significantly during the treatment, but increased (at a marginally significant level) on the 85:15 task during the follow-up period.

A multiple regression analysis revealed that the Conflict scale was a highly significant predictor of ToM, holding the control variables (age, gender, and verbal ability) and the Delay scale constant.

Entropy showed a marginally significant interaction revealing the same trend as roughness which did not survive multiple comparisons (Figure 2 , central panels).

The group difference with respect to the risk-taking behavior was only marginally significant (e.g., Cohen, 1992 ).

In addition, the correlational analysis only showed a trend for a positive relationship between task difficulty and conflict adaptation in the flanker task.

A recent study investigated the idea that the frequency of exposure to the faces of fictive beasts modulates affective ratings of eeriness ( Burleigh and Schoenherr, 2015 ), but the authors report only nearly significant effects.

Our results also showed a trend that French participants more accurately recognized Caucasian models’ disgusted expressions.

We found a trend toward significance for the relation between the localization performance and the interference measure (95%- CI [−0.04; 0.18], log likelihood = −92.02), indicating that the localization performance predicts the interference to some extent.

However, the results for the deviants are tentative at best, with no effect of metrical position on the MMN responses to intensity decrements, and only marginally significant effects of metrical position on the MMN responses to increments.

The indirect effect of the cultural background on behavioral intentions through the mediator participants’ self-construal was highly significant as indicated by the 95% CI (–0.38, –0.07) using 5,000 bootstrap estimations.

The difference between the two groups of mothers on four-way AAI classification approached significance using Exact Chi Square.

The T1 results of the short training group showed a trend of significantly better results than the long training group.

Neither the other main nor the interaction effects approached significance, thus confirming the efficacy of our manipulation.

It shows that a patient with a higher than usual score on self-kindness in a given week had a lower than usual score on PSS-SR assessed 3 days later, β = -1.122, SE = 0.443, t (412.4) = -2.53, p = 0.0110 (one-tailed, borderline significant).