Spider phobics more easily see a spider in morphed schematic pictures

Table 1 Mean questionnaire values (M) and standard deviations (SD) for each group

	Control Group		Spider Phobics		Spider Aficionados		Social Phobics
Questionnaire	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	Kruskal-Wallis Test
SPQ	2.13	1.73	20.31	2.60	.93	1.10	2.23	1.96	χ²(df = 3) = 37.76, p < .0001
SPAI	37.06	17.69	45.88	13.54	46.64	18.33	128.19	17.46	χ²(df = 3) = 31.66, p < .0001
BDI	3.60	3.44	4.81	4.13	4.73	3.71	8.62	5.17	χ²(df = 3) = 7.293, p < .05

The German scores of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory (SPAI) were transformed into the original scores (Turner et al., 1989). STAI-T, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory – Trait Version; BDI, Beck Depression Inventory; SPQ, Spider Questionnaire.
In the SPQ, spider phobic individuals differed from social phobic, spider aficionado and control groups, all p < .0001, and spider aficionados differed from controls, p = .04. In the SPAI, social phobic participants differed from all other groups, all p < .0001. In the BDI, social phobic individuals differed from controls, p = .01, spider aficionados, p = .03, and spider phobic participants, p = .05.

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