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CHAPTER 2 50 Table 2. Design of the experimental task in Experiment 2. Phase Pavlovian acquisition Safety behavior acquisition Extinction Test Full avoidance condition A+ (3) B- (6) C+ (3) A*(+) (2) A~[+] (2) A+ (1) B- (2) C+ (1) C*(+) (2) C~[+] (2) A+ (2) B- (2) C*- (6) A+ (1) B- (1) C- (1) Subtle safety behavior condition A+ (2) B- (2) C~- (6) Control condition A+ (2) B- (2) C- (6) Note . See Table 1 for explanation of trial types. RESULTS Participants Five participants did not show contingency awareness using the predefined criteria (see Experiment 1). Analyses were performed on the data of the remaining 59 participants ( M age = 22.56, SD = 2.96, 42 women, 17 men, Full avoidance condition n = 19, Subtle safety behavior condition n = 21, Control condition n = 19). There were no significant differences between conditions in age, F (2,56) = 1.53, p = .23, η p 2 = .05, and trait anxiety scores, F (2,56) = 1.49, p = .23, η p 2 = .05. There was a trend for state anxiety scores to differ between conditions, F (2,56) = 3.10, p = .053, η p 2 = .10. State anxiety scores were higher in the Control condition than in the Subtle safety behavior condition, t (38) = 2.38, p = .02, d = 0.75, but did not significantly differ between the