A Comparison of Skin Potential and Skin Resistance Responses as Measures of Emotional Responsivity

Burstein, Kenneth R.; Fenz, Walter D.; Bergeron, James Arthur; Epstein, Seymour

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.1965.tb02630.x

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“…Burstein et al (1965) reported a high correspondence between the occurrence of SRRs and SPRs in reaction to emotionally significant stimuli with 20 participants (Sect. 2.5.1.3).…”

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Electrodermal Activity

Boucsein

2012

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except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights.Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Foreword to the Second EditionAs noted by David Lykken in the foreword to the first edition of this book, electrodermal activity was observed for the first time in Germany. A quartercentury later the scientific study of psychology also originated in Germany. Over time, however, the focus of psychological research, including the then new field of psychophysiology, shifted to the United States and Great Britain. This trend to the dominance of the United States and Great Britain was prolonged by the devastation of World War II and its aftermath in Germany (and elsewhere in continental Europe). Slowly at first and then more rapidly, German psychological science, including psychophysiology, recovered. For several decades German psychophysiologists have been a major force in psychophysiology. With the publication of the first English edition of this book in 1992, it became essential for electrodermal researchers worldwide again to learn from our German colleagues.When I came into psychophysiology in the mid-1960s, electrodermal activity was the most common system studied. Because of its popularity, a large literature had emerged on the physiological mechanisms producing these changes in the electrical properties of the skin and on the best methodology for recording them. Major reviews and/or chapters had been published or soon were to be published by Peter Venables and Irene Martin, Robert Edelberg, and David Lykken. Later reviews and articles were published by Venables and Margaret Christie, and by me. A chapter in 1990 by Michael Dawson, Anne Schell, and Diane Filion was especially noteworthy for its coverage of the psychological applications of electrodermal measures.Note that all these publications were journal articles and chapters and that most of them focused almost entirely on mechanisms and methodology. The publication of this book, first in German and then in English, provided the first book on electrodermal activity, and one that extensively covers psychological applications as well as mechanisms and methodology. Again to quote David Lykken back in 1992, "The return of German scholarship to what I shall loftily call the high table of psychophysiology is exemplified by this fine book, the most comprehensive treatise on the electrodermal system to appear in any language . . ." I completely agree with v that evaluation. Professor Boucsein's outstanding scholarship has produced a book of such breadth of coverage ...

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“…Burstein et al (1965) reported a high correspondence between the occurrence of SRRs and SPRs in reaction to emotionally significant stimuli with 20 participants (Sect. 2.5.1.3).…”

Section: Endosomatic Vs Exosomatic Recordingmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Burstein, Fenz, Bergeron, and Epstein (1965), who investigated SR and SP concurrently during a word association test, found that the correlations between the amplitude of the SP c-wave ( Fig. 2.14, Sect.…”

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“…a- and b-wave in Fig. 3A) both increase monotonically with emotion (Burstein et al, 1965), there is a lack of consensus about which SPR metric best characterizes the intensity of subject's emotion (Boucsein, 2012), suggesting that both waves carry some meaningful information. In an effort to select a single measure that is most representative of the whole response, we developed a new metric, SPR Magnitude , which is the average of the rectified SPR signal within a 4 s window from the onset of the a-wave (Fig.…”

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Enhanced emotional responses during social coordination with a virtual partner

Zhang

Dumas

Kelso

et al. 2016

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Emotion and motion, though seldom studied in tandem, are complementary aspects of social experience. This study investigates variations in emotional responses during movement coordination between a human and a Virtual Partner (VP), an agent whose virtual finger movements are driven by the Haken-Kelso-Bunz (HKB) equations of Coordination Dynamics. Twenty-one subjects were instructed to coordinate finger movements with the VP in either inphase or antiphase patterns. By adjusting model parameters, we manipulated the ‘intention’ of VP as cooperative or competitive with the human's instructed goal. Skin potential responses (SPR) were recorded to quantify the intensity of emotional response. At the end of each trial, subjects rated the VP's intention and whether they thought their partner was another human being or a machine. We found greater emotional responses when subjects reported that their partner was human and when coordination was stable. That emotional responses are strongly influenced by dynamic features of the VP's behavior, has implications for mental health, brain disorders and the design of socially cooperative machines.

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“…More recent studies appear to have focused on SSR rather than SRR, but in the following discussion we assume that what is true for SSR is also valid for SRR, since the two are closely related. 24 Some authors reported that either the amplitude or the latency varies greatly on consecutive stimulation, 25'26 while Hoeldtke et al 27 observed no effect of habituation on latency in normal subjects. Danilov et a/.…”

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Electrodermal activity in patients with Parkinson's disease

Esen

Çelebi

Ertekin

et al. 1997

Clinical Autonomic Research

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Peripheral sympathetic activity was investigated in 25 Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and 27 healthy subjects by measuring the skin resistance level (SRL) and skin resistance response (SRR) at the palm of the hand during rest, auditory stimulation and patellar tendon tapping. Blood flow to the hand was also monitored. Normal responses were obtained from all the 27 healthy subjects with both stimuli. All but one of the 25 PD patients responded to sound, six patients failed to respond to patellar tendon tapping and one patient failed to respond to both stimuli. The SRRs (when detectable) of PD patients were always smaller in amplitude than those of normal subjects. It was also observed that while an electrodermal response was present, no vasomotor response could be elicited by either stimulus in some patients. The opposite was true in some other patients. When response latencies were evaluated, it was found that although the mean latency of SRRs evoked by tendon taping was shorter than the mean latency of responses to auditory stimuli in normal subjects, this was not the case in PD patients. SRR mean latency to patellar tendon tapping was significantly longer in PD patients compared with that in normal subjects. Mean latencies of responses to auditory stimuli were the same for both normal subjects and patients. The ratio of the SRR amplitude to SRL (i.e. relative change in SRL) during both types of stimulation was significantly smaller in PD patients than in normal subjects. All the above findings were also true when blood flow to the tissue was interrupted briefly. These findings support the conjecture that the abnormal peripheral sympathetic neural responses associated with PD may arise from a functional disorder in the basal ganglia that influence the efferent autonomic pathway, from impairment of the intermediolateral column of the spinal cord, and possibly from cognitive deficits.

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A Comparison of Skin Potential and Skin Resistance Responses as Measures of Emotional Responsivity

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