R: Arachnophobes

spider {WRS2} | R Documentation

## Arachnophobes

### Description

24 arachnophobes were used in all. 12 were asked to play with a big hairy tarantula spider with big fangs and an evil look. Their subsequent anxiety was measured. The remaining 12 were shown only picture of the same hairy tarantula. Again, the anxiety was measured.

### Usage

    spider

### Format

A data frame with 2 variables and 24 observations:

`Group`

  picture vs. real spider

`Anxiety`

  anxiety measure

### Details

Dataset from Field et al. book (p. 362).

### References

Field, A., Miles, J, \& Field, Z. (2012). Discovering Statistics Using R. Sage.

### Examples

    spider

[Package WRS2 version 0.9-2 Index]