diff --git a/abcd_cca_interactive.m b/abcd_cca_interactive.m
index 3e94906..b6ffcf8 100755
--- a/abcd_cca_interactive.m
+++ b/abcd_cca_interactive.m
@@ -171,9 +171,7 @@
 
 % specify CCA mode
 I = 2;
-% run the correlations, the sign is arbitrary, so lets flip it to be
-% consistent with Smith
-CorCCA = -1*corr(V(:,I), palm_inormal(pneg_vars), 'rows','pairwise');
+CorCCA = corr(V(:,I), palm_inormal(pneg_vars), 'rows','pairwise');
 
 % open the figure
 figure;