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Reports an error in" The role of anxiety sensitivity in the pathogenesis of panic: Prospective evaluation of spontaneous panic attacks during acute stress" by Norman B. Schmidt, Darin R. Lerew and Robert J. Jackson (Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1997 [Aug], Vol 106 [3], 355-364). The article contained an error in the scoring of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI). A data conversion error led to transformation of ASI scores that dramatically truncated this measure (scores of 0-2 recoded to 0, 3 receded to 1, and 4 recoded to 2). The corrected values (items scored 0-4), revised statistics, and amended conclusions are presented in the corrected text.(The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 1997-05214-001.) Expectancy theory posits that anxiety sensitivity may serve as a premorbid risk factor for the development of anxiety pathology (S. Reiss, 1991). The principal aim of the present study was to …