This confirmed the effect of Valence, with a more lax response criterion for endorsing negative items, F 1, 41) = 11.48, p <.002, ηp =.22.
In contrast, negative emotional content was found to be associated with the use of a more lax response criterion, leading us to suggest that this might underlie the greater number of false alarms.
There was also a significant effect of Rating, with a more lax response criterion for items rated for affect, F 1, 41) = 8.52, p <.006, ηp =.17, but there was no significant interaction between Valence and Rating.
This last finding suggests that the higher false alarm rate for emotional items can be attributed to a more lax response criterion, rather than to reduced source monitoring accuracy.
Thus, high perceptual load reduced detection sensitivity despite the higher priority for detection, and the more lax response bias just led to increased false alarm rates under high load but did not improve detection accuracy.
Both main effects remained significant on analysis of image and sentence trials, with a more lax response criterion for negative items, F 1, 50) = 10.86, p<.001, ηp =.18, and for images than for sentences, F 1, 50) = 5.65, p <.05, ηp = 10.
In contrast, the analysis of response criterion scores (c) indicated a more lax criterion was used for emotionally negative items, with corresponding captions being more likely to be endorsed than benign items.
The only significant effect in a similar analysis of response bias scores (c) was for Valence, F 1, 41) = 42.46, p <.001, ηp =.51, with a more lax criterion for emotionally negative items.
So his invitational is more lax.
Occupational safety is abysmal, with lax laws and even more lax controls.
