Table 3 Means and standard deviations per condition for Studies 2–6.

From: Admiration for Islamist groups encourages self-sacrifice through identity fusion

Study

Experimental condition

Cost of sacrifice

Fusion

Fight and die

Help

Aggression

  

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

2

Admiration

3.74

1.25

2.59

1.24

2.11

0.94

    

Typical

2.98

1.08

1.78

1.05

1.74

0.66

    

3

Admiration individual

3.69

1.40

2.40

1.22

2.22

1.09

    

Admiration group

4.15

1.26

2.39

1,34

2.09

1.15

    

No admiration individual

2.12

0.72

1.89

1.11

1.85

0.72

    

No admiration group

2.43

0.68

1.89

1.26

1.71

0.76

    

4

Admiration ingroup

3.91

1.27

2.50

1.34

2.12

1.28

    

Admiration outgroup

3.50

1.34

2.01

1.15

1.73

0.66

    

No admiration ingroup

2.20

0.91

1.63

0.96

1.50

0.41

    

No admiration outgroup

2.50

1.07

1.73

1.11

1.67

0.57

    

5

Admiration sacrifices

4.23

1.11

2.93

1.14

2.28

0.82

    

Admiration qualities

3.26

1.36

2.03

1.25

1.88

0.91

    

No admiration sacrifices

2.36

0.97

1.78

1.29

1.82

0.80

    

No admiration qualities

2.28

0.96

2.26

1.32

1.94

0.81

    

6

Admiration

3.90

1.19

2.82

1.11

  

6.18

2.87

0.70

1.17

No admiration

2.55

0.95

1.92

0.99

  

4.13

2.71

1.51

1.66

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