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change in a dimension (e.g., a light green pine tree versus a dark green pine<br />

tree) and a rating of 1 indicated a substantial change (e.g., a red apple versus a<br />

green apple). Average ratings of how these dimensions changed between the<br />

items in a pair were comparable between the different emotional groups. The<br />

item means (with standard deviations in parentheses) for negative and neutral<br />

object pairs were: for colour .45 (.34), and .70 (.32); for orientation .62 (.35)<br />

and .61 (.35); for shape .44 (.29) and .41 (.26); and for size .22 (.24) and .17<br />

(.22) respectively.<br />

iii) Size.<br />

There were 405 photographs of objects (1 item from each pair) rated for<br />

size by one University of <strong>Nottingham</strong> student (Female, 20 years). Forty-five<br />

percent of all the experimental stimuli were judged to fit into a shoebox in real<br />

life. This was similar across groups of negative (34 items) and neutral (48<br />

items) stimuli.<br />

Familiarity<br />

i) Word frequency and word familiarity.<br />

Word frequency and word familiarity (Wilson, 1988) for the 270 verbal<br />

labels of the object pairs were comparable between the negative and neutral<br />

groups of stimuli. The average ratings (standard deviations in parentheses) for<br />

negative and neutral stimuli were for written word frequency 59.30 (102.65)<br />

and 57.02 (195.38) and for word familiarity 388.15 (245.43) and 417.05<br />

(236.10) respectively.<br />

ii) Familiarity of object.<br />

There were 405 photographs of objects (1 item from each pair) rated for<br />

familiarity on a scale of 1 (highly unfamiliar) to 10 (highly familiar) by one<br />

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