Autonomic responses to affective visual stimuli
| Autor: | Austin Ml, Rafael Klorman, Wiesenfeld Ar |
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| Rok vydání: | 1975 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Visual perception Eye Movements Cognitive Neuroscience Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Audiology Affect (psychology) Autonomic Nervous System Developmental Neuroscience Orientation (mental) Heart Rate Orientation Heart rate medicine Humans Biological Psychiatry Defense Mechanisms Endocrine and Autonomic Systems General Neuroscience Respiration Eye movement Fear Galvanic Skin Response Respiratory activity Affect Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Psychophysiology Neurology Heart rate deceleration Visual Perception Female Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychophysiology. 12(5) |
| ISSN: | 0048-5772 |
| Popis: | Thirty-two subjects were categorized by an objective questionnaire as high or low in fear of mutilation. These subjects viewed six slides each from three categories: neutral, incongruous, and mutilation. As predicted, fearful subjects' cardiac responses to mutilation were acceleratory and their counterparts' deceleratory. Both groups reacted to incongruous stimuli with heart rate deceleration. Unexpectedly, both samples displayed cardiac acceleration to the neutral category. Respiratory patterns of initial expiration characterized low-fear subjects whereas inspiration was typical in the high-fear group. However, respiratory activity did not vary over slide types. The high-fear sample emitted electrodermal responses of greater amplitude and slower recovery to mutilation slides than to the other categories. In both respects, the high-fear sample exceeded their counterparts. Finally, fearful subjects exhibited a more pronounced tendency to judge mutilation slides more aversive than incongruous or neutral materials. In general, responses to mutilation materials indicated reactions of defense in fearful subjects and orientation in low-fear persons. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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