Expectancy of Stress-Reducing Aromatherapy Effect and Performance on a Stress-Sensitive Cognitive Task

Table 4

Relationships among expectancy, poststress behavioral, and poststress ERP measures.

Variable	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
(1) GNG med. RT	0.176	−0.054	0.051	−0.221	0.040	−0.082	−0.346^T
(2) GNG no-go % errors	1	−0.166	−0.309	−0.132	−0.278	0.304	0.151
(3) N200 no-go amplitude		1	0.138	0.547^**	0.124	−0.171	−0.165
(4) N200 no-go latency			1	−0.192	0.995^**	−0.288	−0.110
(5) P300 no-go amplitude				1	−0.189	−0.441^*	−0.147
(6) P300 no-go latency					1	−0.291	−0.106
(7) Expected aroma effect (baseline)						1	0.443^*
(8) Alertness level (poststress)							1

Abbreviations: GNG = go/no-go task, med. RT = median reaction time, SD = standard deviation, and ERP = event related potential.
^T.10 < < .05, , and .