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Table 2 Emotion perception in the VERT-K (Vienna Emotion Recognition Task)

From: Inhibitory control towards angry stimuli in patients with binge eating disorder: a pilot study

 

M (SD)

p values of Bonferroni-corrected pairwise comparisons

Correct answers (%)

Happiness

Neutral

Anger

Anxiety

Sadness

Disgust

Happiness

96.6 (7.5)

–

1.0

.148

 < .001*

 < .001*

 < .001*

Neutral

90.8 (13.4)

–

–

1.0

.103

 < .001*

 < .001*

Anger

89.1 (11.5)

–

–

–

1.0

 < .001*

 < .001*

Anxiety

79.3 (23.0)

–

–

–

–

.103

 < .001*

Sadness

71.3 (7.9)

–

–

–

–

–

1.0

Disgust

61.2 (17.2)

–

–

–

–

–

–

  1. * The level of significance is p < .05
  2. Correct answers (%) are presented for each discrete emotion in descending order and pooled over the groups BED, BMI-CG and NW-CG (N = 58)
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Journal of Eating Disorders

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