A study of fear by means of the psychogalvanic technique.

Abstract

Introduction; experimental studies; psychogalvanic studies of pain and fear; apparatus; observers; preliminary adjustment and instructions; affective situations; treatment of the psychogalvanic results; the relation of the breathing changes to the psychogalvanic reflex; introspections of fear; comparison between introspective and psychogalvanic results; conclusions; bibliography. * Professor J. N. Pearce, of the department of physical chemistry, very kindly designed the electrodes.

Physiological Metrics of Mental Workload: A Review of Recent Progress

“…Jung (1907; Peterson & Jung, 1907) viewed EDA as a window on the unconscious and particularly on the experience of emotion. Other researchers employed measures of EDA to examine dimensions of emotion such as fear, sadness, and joy (Bayley, 1928;Linde, 1928;Waller, 1918). The sensitivity of EDA to variations in emotional experience ultimately led to its use in the detection of deception, which is still a popular application of EDA today (Waid & Orne, 1982).…”

A study in the Seashore motor-rhythm test.

“…The mean of these products was then computed and a single product expressed in terms of the per cent, of the mean of the products. 4 We then listed the emotions reported by the Os. We arranged the emotions according to descending order of magnitude of the average galvanometric deflection produced.…”

Changes in the galvanic skin response accompanying the Rorschach Test.

“…A peripheral index of such a change in energy mobilization is to be found in the change in palmar skin conductance commonly called the galvanic skin response, or GSR [5,7]. Palmar skin conductance has been found by a number of investigators to increase in situations designed to produce "emotional tone" or to pos- 1 This article is based upon the writer's Master's thesis of the same title, which is on file in the University of Alabama Library. The writer wishes to express her appreciation to Dr. Paul S. Siegel and Dr. Oliver L. Lacey for their indispensable guidance, to Dr. Francis W. Irwin of the University of Pennsylvania for his helpful suggestions concerning preparation of the manuscript for publication, to the University of Alabama Research Committee for making certain facilities available for the execution of the experiment, and to the Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity and the Sigma Delta Tau Fraternity, who supported her in part with fellowship grants during the academic year in which the research was conducted.…”