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The effects of arousal on memorial accuracy : a comparison of arousal as part of content material and arousal as part of contextual environment
In an attempt to examine the effect of arousal on memory, the present study investigated whether the source of arousal had any influence on the incidental memory of a short slide show. Specifically, memory of arousing content was compared to memory of material while in an arousing emotional state. …
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Decision Making, Conflict, and Physiological Arousal
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Arousal and behaviour of coaches during competition
… psychological and psychophysiological arousal levels of basketball coaches and their behaviour during the match. Study one examined the relationship between coaches' behaviour and arousal level. Trait anxiety was measured at the commencement of the study, using the Sport Competition …
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Sympathetic Arousal During Approach-Avoidance Decision- Making
… EDA has been used widely to assess autonomic arousal during various paradigms. Research has demonstrated how autonomic arousal (1) occurs during the processing or anticipation of emotional stimuli and (2) may inform the decision-making process. Our research focused on investigation of …
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Non-Photic Phase Shifting: Acetylcholine and Arousal
… both provide a sustained level of behavioral arousal to the animals in order to bring about phase shifts. If this was the case, then neurotransmitters involved in behavioral arousal should also participate in non-photic phase shifting. Neurotransmission of acetylcholine (ACh) is involved in …
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Gender differences in cognitive interference with sexual arousal
It is well documented that cognitive interference detrimentally influences sexuality, but little is known about the content of that interference. This study compared the self-reports of 220 college men and 337 college women on two types of cognitive interference during sex, performance-oriented and …
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The Automatic Prediction of Pleasure and Arousal Ratings
… ratings of music. The dimensions of pleasure and arousal exhibit high reliability. Eighty-five participants’ ratings of 100 song excerpts are used to benchmark the predictive accuracy of several combinations of acoustic preprocessing and statistical learning algorithms. The Euclidean distance …
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Being Transgender: Effects of Behaviour, Arousal and Wellbeing
… investigated the sex atypicality, physiological arousal, and wellbeing of transgender men (female to male) in order to better understand the behaviours and feelings of this under-researched group and to investigate the influences that one’s gender identity and birth sex may have on various …
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Sexual Arousal and Mental Health in Bisexual Men
… health related to their physiological sexual arousal patterns. Based on the literature one of our hypotheses was that bisexual men with bisexual arousal patterns report more mental health problems than other bisexual men, straight men, and gay men. However, an alternative hypothesis was that …
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Reaction time, performance and level of physiological arousal
… a study to assess the effects of physiological arousal, induced by means of a placebo injection, upon visual reaction· time. Two levels of task difficulty were employed: a two-choice test requiring manual responses and a four-choice test, in which the additional two peripheral stimuli were …
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Towards Elucidating Psychological Arousal in Response to Music Theatre
This thesis explores the psychological effects of observing experimental music theatre performance video recording. Experiencing music theatre can evoke a range of aesthetic and psychological emotions in audiences. These include joy, sadness, fear, unease, excitement, and empathy. Immersion in …
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Ambulatory assessment of physiological arousal, emotion, and alcohol use
… findings, high negative affect and high arousal states during the day were generally related to decreased likelihood of same-day drinking and decreased estimated blood alcohol concentration, while positive affect was related to increased likelihood of drinking. Hostility and number of …
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The influence of arousal on visuocortical processing in humans
… to moment, with one process being states of arousal. For example, driving on a freeway, our vision is likely quite different when we are drowsy compared to when we are alert. While animal studies have found arousal states to substantially modulate visual responses, our understanding of its …
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Psychopathy and Incapacity to Love: Role of Physiological Arousal
… experiences. Specifically, low physiological arousal for the partner partially mediated the relationship between psychopathic features and passionate love. Also, it was found that the interaction between low physiological arousal for the significant other and high physiological arousal for the …
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Development of the sexual arousal and desire inventory (SADI) for the assessment of the psychological and subjective experience of sexual arousal and desire
… and subjective experience of sexual arousal and desire. The first experiment included a three-questionnaire inventory that was filled out by 85 men and 156 women. Subjects provided demographic information in the first questionnaire and then rated 86 descriptors as they applied to …
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Observer and target sexual arousal effects on heterosexual interpersonal behavior
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The relationship between hand-nearness, emotional arousal, and visual processing
… examined whether hand-nearness and emotional arousal affect visual processing through a shared cognitive mechanism. More specifically, it was proposed that hand-nearness activates the same visual processing mechanism that is engaged during arousal. All experiments included replications of …
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Acute Effects of Smoking on Prose Memory and Physiological Arousal
… of varying nicotine yields had on physiological arousal and memory for prose passages.</p> <p>Forty-five male habitual smokers were assigned to either a placebo (0.1mg nicotine cigarette), a 0.7mg, or a 1.5mg nicotine cigarette group. All subjects were in good health, reported that they regularly …
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Arousal theory and the interrelationships of caffeine, nicotine and impulsivity
Nicotine, caffeine, impulsivity, and arousal are all intercorrelated: both drugs increase arousal, and impulsivity is theoretically related to arousal. However, the independent and joint effects of nicotine and caffeine on impulsive behavior are unclear. In this study, male college students (N = …
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