Correlations between psychological tests and physiological responses during fear conditioning and renewal

Table 1 Results of simple regressions for CS + responses

Tests	SCL	Cond.	Extinction	Recall	Renewal
Tests	R²	R²	R²	R²	R²
Trait Anxiety	−0.022	0.009	0.022	−0.008	−0.023
State Anxiety	0.056	0.013	0.004	−0.005	−0.018
Beck Anxiety	−0.020	0.003	0.007	0.001	0.037
Neuroticism	0.021	0.000	0.041	0.000	0.000
Extraversion	0.145**	0.001	0.016	0.063	0.170**
	β = −0.405				0.170**
	β = −0.405				β = −0.413
Conscientiousness	−0.021	0.071*	0.063	0.019	0.019
Conscientiousness	−0.021	β = −0.304	0.063	0.019	0.019
EST Reaction Time	−0.023	0.001	0.072*	0.035	0.008
EST Reaction Time	−0.023	0.001	β = 0.304	0.035	0.008
MSIT Reaction Time	−0.010	0.028	0.009	0.037	0.014

Shown are values for R² (the amount of SCR variance accounted for each test). For significant correlations with SCR, β is shown. SCL = baseline skin conductance level, Cond. = Conditioning, EST = Emotional Stroop Task, MSIT = Multi-Source Interference Task. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.001.

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