Inter- and intrasession reliability of psychophysiological poststress adaptation periods

Allergy Diagnosis in Atopic Eczema with the Atopy Patch Test

“…Converting responses to relative terms did not improve reliability. Other studies have found similar evidence of differing intersession reliability coefficients of physiological responses (e.g., Arena, 1984;Shellenberger & Lewis, 1986). These studies appear to argue against one of the essential requirements of the principle of specificity; stability of response patterns.…”

The Psychological Aspects of Atopic Dermatitis

“…Converting responses to relative terms did not improve reliability. Other studies have found similar evidence of differing intersession reliability coefficients of physiological responses (e.g., Arena, 1984;Shellenberger & Lewis, 1986). These studies appear to argue against one of the essential requirements of the principle of specificity; stability of response patterns.…”

The (Un)Emotional Male: Physiological, Verbal, and Written Correlates of Expressiveness

“…Mental Arithmetic Task. Earlier studies have shown that mental arithmetic procedures can increase activity in muscle tension, skin temperature, heart rate, electrodermal response, and systolic blood pressure (e.g., Anderson, 1989;Arena, 1984). After reviewing the protocols of several investigators (Carlson, Collins, Stewart, Porzelius, Nitz, & Lind, 1989;Donat & McCullough, 1983;Subotnik & Shapiro, 1984), a oneminute arithmetic task was devised for the present study: participants were given a three digit number on a 4x6 card and asked to count aloud backwards by increments of 13.…”