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TABLE 7 Continued 



The correlation between U 

 movements and holdups r = 

 +0.48 and PE = 0.072. 



The correlation by the Pearson coefficient 

 between P movements and holdups r = 

 -0.54 and PE = 0.0678. 

 The correlation between the U and P 

 movements and errors is negligible. 



U = up; D = down; LU = left up; LD = left down; RU = right up; RD = 

 right down; R = right; L = left. 



The number of Right and Left movements is equal in each of the U and P 

 arrays. 



These movements required substitution of cards. 



r= 0.56, and the U movements, now less unpleasant, gave a 

 lower positive correlation, r=-f-0.40 (see table 8). The errors 

 in this table also gave a negligible correlation; they are caused 

 by several other factors aside from U feelings of a movement. 



The negative correlation between P feeling qualities of a move- 

 ment and inhibitions and the positive correlation between U feel- 

 ing qualities and inhibitions are strong evidence that feelings ex- 

 cited by movement exert an appreciable influence on its habit 

 forming capacity: hinder if the feeling quality is unpleasant, 

 facilitate if the quality is pleasant. 



The facts go still farther and show that the feeling qualities 

 are dependent upon certain definite features of the movements. 



2. Feeling tone and direction of movement. Attention has been 

 directed repeatedly to a decided relationship existing between 

 unpleasant feelings and leftward movements on the one hand, and 

 pleasant feelings and rightward on the other. To gain a numer- 

 ical expression of the relationships a classification of the reports on 



