Barely Significant

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Only when alone and competition trials were averaged was there a marginally significant effect where participants performed quicker on the competition trials, leading to the conclusion “evidence can be coaxed from the data” (p. 278) with some effort, “indicat[ing] barely a statistical hint of the social facilitation of performance to which his experiment has been credited” (p. 280).
Our results highlighted that the children presented an overall trend in their empathic preferences, towards non-human animals, that is similar to what has been previously observed in adults from the general population 57 : like them, children’s empathy scores towards species significantly decreased with the phylogenetic distance relative to humans.