“…Importantly, other factors such as sex (Lebron-Milad et al, 2012;Milad et al, 2006Milad et al, , 2010Rosenbaum et al, 2015), gonadal hormones (Merz et al, 2012;Milad et al, 2006), education (Rosenbaum et al, 2015), age (Bellebaum & Daum, 2004;Rosenbaum et al, 2015), ethnicity (Martínez, Franco-Chaves, Milad, & Quirk, 2014;Nelson, Bishop, Sarapas, Kittles, & Shankman, 2014), personality traits (Otto et al, 2007), and genetic factors (Åhs, Frick, Furmark, & Fredrikson, 2014;Hettema, Annas, Neale, Kendler, & Fredrikson, 2003;Hindi Attar, Finckh, & Büchel, 2012;Klucken et al, 2014;Lonsdorf et al, 2009;Merrill, Steinmetz, Viken, & Rose, 1999;Wendt et al, 2015) have also been shown to modulate conditionability. Importantly, it is common for fear conditioning studies to exclude participants due to poor evidence of a conditioned SCR (Chauret et al, 2014;Milad, Orr, Pitman, & Rauch, 2005;Oyarzún et al, 2012;Phelps, Delgado, Nearing, & LeDoux, 2004;Spring et al, 2015). The percentage of exclusions reported varies across studies and can go from 4% (Chauret et al, 2014) up to 19% (Oyarzún et al, 2012.…”