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Decision Making, Conflict, and Physiological Arousal
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Reaction time, performance and level of physiological arousal
… as subjects in 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 …
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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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Psychopathy and Incapacity to Love: Role of Physiological Arousal
… classic characteristics. Moreover, the role of physiological responding in their romantic experiences has yet to be examined. The proposed study examined physiological reactivity (i.e., heart rate, HR; skin conductance, SC) as a mediator and moderator in the relationship between psychopathic …
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Acute Effects of Smoking on Prose Memory and Physiological Arousal
… a cigarette 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 …
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Physiological Arousal and Social Linguistic Perception in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
… with ASD because they experience increased arousal in social situations. The objective of this study was to determine whether differences in arousal exist during social linguistic perception in children with ASD, when compared to arousal levels during perception of social non-linguistic and …
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Novelty-Seeking Behavior as a Function of Manifest Anxiety and Physiological Arousal
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The influence of progressive relaxation on physiological arousal in a perceived risk situation
… risk situation was created in which heightened physiological arousal was induced, observed and managed. Direct signs of heightened physiological arousal were observed by monitoring changes in heartbeat, skin temperature, skin conductance, electromyographic activity and blood volume pulse using a …
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An experimental investigation of the relationship between physiological arousal, panic expectancy and agoraphobia
The effects of physiological arousal and panic expectancy on anxiety and agoraphobic avoidance were evaluated on thirty-six Ss diagnosed with panic disorder. It was hypothesized that there would be main effects of increased physiological arousal and increased panic expectancy on anxiety and …
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Examining the Role of Physiological Arousal in Laboratory Risk-Taking in Social and Non-Social Contexts
Current theoretical models attribute the rise in risk-taking during adolescence to heightened activity in reward processing brain regions when in the presence of social and non-social rewarding stimuli. However, non-rewarding, but very salient stimuli, have also been shown to increase activity in …
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The impact of virtual environment on physiological reactivity and perceived physiological arousal among students with public speaking anxiety and the mediating role of safety behaviors
… speaking anxiety (PSA) would demonstrate higher physiological reactivity and perceive higher physiological arousal to public speaking in a virtual reality (VR) environment than individuals with low PSA levels and whether this relationship would be mediated by safety behaviors. The sample in this …
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The effects of altering respiratory parameters upon certain autonomic and somatic variables
Psychophysiological research has shown that high physiological arousal in the autonomic and somatic nervous system is associated with emotionality, e.g. anxiety. It was the aim of the present research to investigate the use of a deep breathing technique which would be easily amenable to voluntary …
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Predicting academic self-efficacy in foster care alumni
… sources of self-efficacy (mastery experience, physiological arousal, social persuasion, vicarious experience). Findings demonstrate support for Bandura’s (1982) self-efficacy theory, that mastery experience, physiological arousal, social persuasion, and vicarious experience together predict …
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Effects of a Disengagement Intervention on Cognitive Performance in Those with a Mild Head Injury
… injury; the vmPFC is responsible for regulating physiological arousal and the neuropathology following MHI has been shown to lead to physiological underarousal. Dampened physiological arousal has been shown to precede and give rise to cognitive fatigue, and that more severe injuries lead to both …
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Reactivity and Recovery of Physiological and Neuropsychological Variables as a Function of Hostility
… right cerebral involvement in hostility and physiological arousal. First, replication of previous research indicating heightened physiological responding to stress among high hostile individuals was attempted. Second, high hostile individuals were predicted to an increased tendency toward …
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Efecto del proceso de imagery en la ejecución del tiro libre del baloncesto en distintos niveles de activación fisiológica en estudiantes de nivel elemental
… free throw basketball at different levels of physiological arousal in elementary students is a product of interest in collaborating with the teaching-learning process for the student. This is an area in which it seeks to develop concepts, principles, strategies and tactics that can be applied …
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Links Between Parental Responses to Adolescent Distress and Adolescent Risk Behavior: The Mediating Role of Thought/Emotion Suppression
… and adolescent risk behavior by testing whether physiological arousal when viewing negative emotional stimuli mediates this link. Participants included 115 adolescents (mean age = 17.19 years, SD = 1.27; 48% female) and 109 mothers. Aim 1 analyses revealed limited support for the hypothesized …
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Misattribution of arousal in negotiation : the role of the eye of the beholder
This dissertation examines the impact of physiological arousal on negotiation outcomes. Conventional wisdom and extant prescriptive literature suggest that arousal should be minimized, given its assumed negative effect on negotiations. Prior research on the theory of misattribution of arousal, …
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In-situ measurement of electrodermal activity during occupational therapy
Physiological arousal is an important part of occupational therapy for children with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) but therapists do not have a way to objectively measure how therapy affects arousal. We hypothesized that when children with SPD participate in guided activities within an …
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Physiological And Psychological Responses To 911 Emergency Tapes
… 911 tapes, and their influence on viewers' physiological and psychological health was investigated. Research regarding the relationship between physiological arousal and exposure to brief traumatic stimuli, as well as research addressing the development of pathological psychiatric symptoms …
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