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experiment to provide a set of targets and distractors for the test phase of the<br />

experiment. Emotional arousal, emotional valence and low level visual<br />

properties were matched between these two sets (see Appendix 3.1 for means<br />

and SD). Stimuli were also matched for whether or not they contained an<br />

identifiable face within the photograph.<br />

Stimuli were selected to provide distinct ratings of emotional valence<br />

between the positive, neutral and negative groups of stimuli with means (with<br />

SD in parentheses) of 7.17 (0.53), 5.01 (0.60) and 3.04 (0.55) respectively.<br />

Average ratings of arousal were matched between positive and negative groups<br />

of stimuli with means (with SD in parentheses) of 5.11 (0.80) and 5.14 (0.73)<br />

respectively with a lower average for the neutral group of 4.70 (0.85).<br />

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