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The exploratory analyses on the first pieces of information provided for each trial showed a trend-level effect of the addressee’s likely knowledge, with more descriptions and less characters’ names as first pieces of information for likely unknown movies.

A multiple regression analysis revealed that the Conflict scale was a highly significant predictor of ToM, holding the control variables (age, gender, and verbal ability) and the Delay scale constant.

The group difference with respect to the risk-taking behavior was only marginally significant (e.g., Cohen, 1992 ).

With respect to the evolution of the frequency of vomiting, although it was more irregular, there was also a decreasing trend (Figure 3 ).

There was a marginally significant difference on the measure of objective ambivalence, showing stronger effects for abstract topics.

Further, the participants who were identified as higher in anxiety showed a trend toward greater right frontal activation relative to low-anxious subjects ( Tuscan et al., 2013 ).

The same effect was found for the smiling versus neutral unfamiliar woman stimuli, with marginal significance.

The need for inhibitory control and the processing of reward- and/or punishment-related cues are two functional task components that might be significant vis-a-vis the sex difference.

Our results also showed a trend that French participants more accurately recognized Caucasian models’ disgusted expressions.

We found a trend toward significance for the relation between the localization performance and the interference measure (95%- CI [−0.04; 0.18], log likelihood = −92.02), indicating that the localization performance predicts the interference to some extent.

However, the results for the deviants are tentative at best, with no effect of metrical position on the MMN responses to intensity decrements, and only marginally significant effects of metrical position on the MMN responses to increments.

The difference between the two groups of mothers on four-way AAI classification approached significance using Exact Chi Square.

The weak hypothesis was supported, but the results involving the strong hypothesis were marginally non-significant.

Neither the other main nor the interaction effects approached significance, thus confirming the efficacy of our manipulation.

It shows that a patient with a higher than usual score on self-kindness in a given week had a lower than usual score on PSS-SR assessed 3 days later, β = -1.122, SE = 0.443, t (412.4) = -2.53, p = 0.0110 (one-tailed, borderline significant).

Thus, given our directional hypothesis, the difference appears to be at least marginally significant.

However the correlation between biological and social causal beliefs significantly differed between cultures, being significantly, positively correlated in the European American sample while trending toward significance in the Indian sample (see Depression in Table S7 ).

Differences in c between liberal and conservative blocks were highly significant in each case (all t s > 7, all p s < 0.001).

More interestingly, and similar to previous studies, the N170 inversion effect was more pronounced in younger relative to older adults (Gao et al., 2009 ; Daniel and Bentin, 2012 ), although in the present study the respective interaction was only observed as a statistical trend.

Additionally we control against segmentation reliability and we find a clear trend that reliable convex segments have a high degree of name-ability.

Results: Structural Equation Modeling showed that the associations between SES, EF, parenting style and ODD levels differed by children's gender: (a) for girls, the association of low SES and high ODD scores was partially mediated by difficulties in EF inhibition, and parenting practices defined by corporal punishment and inconsistent discipline obtained a quasi-significant indirect effect into the association between SES and ODD; (b) for boys, SES and EF (inhibition and emotional control) had a direct effect on ODD with no mediation.

We also noticed that the effect of EFL teachers' homework follow-up practices on performance was affected by students' prior performance, confirming our second hypothesis, but not by the number of homework follow-up sessions (i.e., the number of homework follow-up sessions was only marginally non-significant as a secondary factor, not as the principal factor).

Two results approached significance: infants who were above the median were higher in the composite category including Looking Around and Object Engagement compared to those who were below [ M = 0.72 (0.32) vs 0.33 (0.43), respectively; U = 6, p = 0.065], whereas they were lower in Protest compared to the other group [ M = 0.01(0.01) vs 0.20 (0.39), U = 7, p = 0.061].

As expected, the null model did not fit the data well, with a highly significant chi-square indicating a significant difference between the observed and estimated covariance matrices, χ 2 (392) = 38.94, CFI = 0.001, RMSEA = 0.18.

In contrast, highly significant improvements following therapy, all of which were significantly greater than changes during the waiting list, were found on all domains assessed (Cohen’s d: 0.44–0.75).