Skin conductance responses to real and imagined snakes among avoidant and non-avoidant college students

McGlynn, F. Dudley; Puhr, John J.; Gaynor, R D; Perry, John

doi:10.1016/0005-7967(73)90100-9

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“…People with high fear of snakes also show increased cognitive interference in the Stroop test when confronted with snake-related sentences (Constantine et al, 2001;Wikström et al, 2004). Furthermore, high-fear individuals demonstrate higher skin conductance response (SCR) when confronted with a live snake (McGlynn et al, 1973) or just a snake picture (Flykt et al, 2017), even when these are presented unconsciously (Öhman and Soares, 1994). Unconscious presentation of snakes within watched video stimuli attracts attention in form of eye saccades directed toward the areas where the snakes were presented and this effect is again more pronounced in snake-fearful participants (Rosa et al, 2014).…”

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Emotional Reaction to Fear- and Disgust-Evoking Snakes: Sensitivity and Propensity in Snake-Fearful Respondents

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This paper continues our previous study in which we examined the respondents' reaction to two morphologically different snake stimuli categories -one evoking exclusively fear and another evoking exclusively disgust. Here we acquired Likert-type scale scores of fear and disgust evoked by the same snake stimuli by a total of 330 respondents. Moreover, we collected data about the respondents' age, gender, education, snake fear [Snake Questionnaire (SNAQ)], and disgust propensity [Disgust Scale-Revised (DS-R)], and we analyzed the effect of these variables on the emotional scores (with special focus on snake-fearful respondents). In addition, we collected the SNAQ and DS-R scores from the respondents tested in the previous study using the rank-ordering method to directly compare the results of these two approaches. The results showed that non-fearful respondents give high scores of fear to the feareliciting snakes and high scores of disgust to the disgust-eliciting snakes, but they give low scores of the other emotional dimension (disgust/fear) to each. In contrast, snakefearful respondents not only give higher fear and disgust scores to the respective snake stimuli, but they also give high scores of fear to the disgust-eliciting snakes and high scores of disgust to the fear-eliciting snakes. Both Likert-scale scores and rank-ordering data show that the clear border dividing both snake stimuli categories dissolves when evaluated by the snake-fearful respondents.

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“…Klorman, Weerts, Hastings, Melamed, and Lang (1974) stated that Paul's (1966) version of Gilkenson's (1942) Personal Report of Confidence as a Speaker (PRCS) should be used as a dependent-variable measure in all experiments that evaluated therapy for public speaking anxiety. McGlynn, Puhr, Gaynor, and Perry (1973) argued that the fearful Ss selected for use in any analogue desensitization study should display psychophysiological responsivity on being instructed to visualize scenes that pertained to the fear under investigation. This experiment was designed in part to determine whether these two methodological recommendations can be followed simultaneously.…”

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Skin conductance and heart-rate responsivity to public speaking imagery among students with high and low self-reported fear: A comparative analysis of “response” definitions

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McGlynn

1977

J. Clin. Psychol.

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The experiment evaluated the feasibility of using self-report measures of public speaking anxiety to select autonomically responsive Ss for behavior therapy research and the influence of E's definition of "response" on empirical generalizations derived from the study. Heartrate and skin conductance responses of Ss who scored high and of Ss who scored low on self-report fear measures were monitored during neutral and speech-related imagery. High-scoring Ss were more responsive than were low-scoring Ss, but the surplus responsivity was not cued uniquely by speech-related imagery. Examination of four definitions (transformations) of heart-rate response and five definitions of skin conductance response showed that different conclusions were yielded by differing response definitions. Implications of the findings for further research are presented.

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“…using snake-avoidant college students as Ss for some types of experimental work. However, there was considerable overlap in the electrodermal response distributions of avoidant and non-avoidant Ss in the McGlynn, Puhr, Gaynor, and Perry (1973) study and only questionable significance (p C.10) for the cardiac response differences between avoidant and non-avoidant Ss in the McGlynn and Puhr experiment. For these and other reasons the present study was designed, in part, to replicate the earlier work.2 It therefore evaluated snake-cued autonomic responses among Ss classified as avoidant vs. non-avoidant with a prototypical behavioral test.…”

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“…Approximately 4 days after the Physiological Response Test each of the 66 tested potential Ss was contacted by a different E and asked t o report t o a different waiting room. There she was met by the second E (who was uninformed about her physiological data), allowed to complete the Snake Anxiety Questionnaire (Klorman, Weerts, Hastings, Melamed, & Lang, 1974) , provided with a Behavioral Avoidance Test Checklist (McGlynn, Puhr, Gaynor, & Perry, 1973), and escorted to the doorway of a different room.…”

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Psychophysiological responses to presentation of a caged snake among behaviorally avoidant non-avoidant college students

McGlynn

Barrios

1978

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Sixty-six coeds who reported fear of snakes on a paper-and-pencil fear inventory were exposed to a Physiological Response Test, during which their electrodermal and cardiac responses to a neutral stimulus and a caged snake were recorded. Half of these coeds then were exposed to a representative Behavioral Avoidance Test, on the basis of which they were classified as avoidant, as non-avoidant, or as neither. Those remaining were classified similarly with an Incentive Behavioral Avoidation Test, before which each was offered an incentive for displaying non-fearfulness. The electrodermal response data showed that students classifed as avoidant had not been more responsive to snake confrontation than the the students classified as non-avoidant. The cardiac response data showed that avoidant Ss had been relatively more responsive to the snake cue, but that differential responsiveness was not robust. These results held for both behavioral avoidance tests.

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Skin conductance responses to real and imagined snakes among avoidant and non-avoidant college students

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

Emotional Reaction to Fear- and Disgust-Evoking Snakes: Sensitivity and Propensity in Snake-Fearful Respondents

Emotional Reaction to Fear- and Disgust-Evoking Snakes: Sensitivity and Propensity in Snake-Fearful Respondents

Skin conductance and heart-rate responsivity to public speaking imagery among students with high and low self-reported fear: A comparative analysis of “response” definitions

Psychophysiological responses to presentation of a caged snake among behaviorally avoidant non-avoidant college students

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