“…For example, Pennebaker and Chew (1985) found that deception was associated with increases in skin conductance activity, but was not related to other autonomic nervous system activity. Both as induced in the laboratory (Pennebaker & Chew, 1985;Wegner, Shortt, Blake, & Page, 1990) and as observed naturalistically (Waid & Orne, 1982;Weinberger, Scbwartz, & Davidson, 1979), inhibition has been associated witb heightened skin conductance activity. In the laboratory, subjects asked to inhibit emotionally charged thoughts, for example, thoughts of sex (Wegner et al, 1990), or to react with detachment to disturbing movie clips that depicted amputations (Koriat, Melkman, Averill, & Lazarus, 1972), showed elevated levels of skin conductance activity.…”