Table 3 Comparison of people who jumped to conclusions or not, regarding attributional style, emotional recognition, and ToM, using Student’s t-tests.

ER

Emotional recognition test

No JTC

17.81

1.58

0.042 (0.388)*

17.74

1.67

0.031 (0.539)**

17.82

1.54

0.017 (0.721)**

JTC

17.11

2.00

16.76

1.95

16.42

2.27

ToM

Hinting task

No JTC

4.81

1.09

0.308 (0.202)

4.76

1.10

0.703 (0.092)

4.79

1.06

0.255 (0.258)

JTC

4.58

1.18

4.65

1.27

4.47

1.39

Attributional style

Internal attribution of positive event

No JTC

7.14

3.40

0.745 (0.064)

7.05

3.43

0.202 (0.331)

7.12

3.30

0.522 (0.152)

JTC

7.37

3.74

8.25

3.80

7.72

4.51

Internal attribution of negative event

No JTC

5.96

3.65

0.034 (0.425)*

6.21

3.62

0.103 (0.401)

6.12

3.55

0.029 (0.509)**

JTC

7.57

3.93

7.88

4.63

8.22

4.63

Personal attribution of positive event

No JTC

4.94

3.52

0.225 (0.255)

4.67

3.42

0.822 (0.063)

4.71

3.41

0.907 (0.029)

JTC

4.11

2.96

4.88

3.16

4.61

3.26

Personal attribution of negative event

No JTC

6.77

3.66

0.125 (0.313)

6.52

3.59

0.547 (0.145)

6.50

3.50

0.672 (0.100)

JTC

5.66

3.41

5.94

3.84

6.11

4.25

Situational attribution of positive event

No JTC

3.92

3.33

0.516 (0.1126)

4.27

3.51

0.077 (0.514)

4.16

3.45

0.423 (0.204)

JTC

4.37

3.79

2.63

2.83

3.44

3.58

Situational attribution of negative event

No JTC

3.23

3.32

0.389 (0.176)

3.21

3.35

0.191 (0.386)

3.33

3.38

0.004 (0.636)**

JTC

2.66

3.14

2.06

2.54

1.56

2.01

Externalised bias

No JTC

1.18

4.06

0.042 (0.388)*

0.83

3.76

0.658 (0.112)

1.00

3.82

0.124 (0.404)

JTC

−0.20

2.95

0.38

4.22

−0.50

3.59

Personalised bias

No JTC

1.27

0.68

0.929 (0.028)

1.23

0.67

0.073 (0.470)

1.24

0.66

0.184 (0.315)

JTC

1.29

0.71

1.56

0.73

1.47

0.79