THE following observations were made on the group of normal individuals (64 medical students) who underwent the psychogalvanic experiments reported in a preceding paperl. We there have described the stimuli used and the experimental procedure (no external current, string galvanometer, records on rolling film paper). Though these experiments were not unde&ak& primarily in order to find out those topics which were of especial importance for the individuals under test, we examined the records for this also. The students were asked after the test 00 give a subjective account of their experience during the experiment. The word list was presented to each of them and the request was made t o mark all those words which had elicited, during the experiment, a definite emotional reaction. The results of the experiments also were discussed with many of the subjects after the records were developed and the reactions identitied.The question may arise whether a galvanic response always corresponds to what we call an emotion. There are findings in patients which suggest that the galvanic skin reflex-in some pathological cases a t least-may function independently of higher functions of the personality, though from all the work which has been done on the psychogalvanic phenomenon it is evident that, as a rule, a deflection of the string is based on an affective swing. Our experiments corroborate this.The list of 50 stimulus words which contained terms indicative of a variety of actual life situations was read twice during the experiment (with a few minutes' interval); the subjects were asked to make no response. In the accompanying table we give the stimulus words arranged according to the frequency of the reactions during the first reading. Following each word is indicated the number of individuals (as percentage of the group of 50 students here considered) who gave This Journal. XVII, pp. 6449.
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