The final version of our data paper titled “Data on simulated interpersonal touch, individual differences and the error-related negativity” has been published in Data in Brief, an Open Access journal. The full reference is: Tjew-A-Sin, M., Tops, M., Heslenfeld, D.J., & Koole, S.L. (2016). Data on simulated interpersonal touch, individual differences and the error-related negativity. Data in Brief, 7, 1327–1330. Click here to check it out.

Abstract: The dataset includes data from the electroencephalogram study reported in our paper: ‘Effects of simulated interpersonal touch and trait intrinsic motivation on the error-related negativity’ (doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2016.01.044) (Tjew-A-Sin et al., 2016) [1]. The data was collected at the psychology laboratories at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2012 among a Dutch-speaking student sample. The dataset consists of the measures described in the paper, as well as additional (exploratory) measures including the Five-Factor Personality Inventory, the Connectedness to Nature Scale, the Rosenberg Self-esteem Scale and a scale measuring life stress. The data can be used for replication purposes, meta-analyses, and exploratory analyses, as well as cross-cultural comparisons of touch and/or ERN effects. The authors also welcome collaborative research based on re-analyses of the data. The data described is available at a data repository called the DANS archive: http://persistent-identifier.nl/?identifier=urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-tzbk-gg.