Orienting responses and personality variables as predictors of differential conditioning of electrodermal responses and awareness of stimulus relations.

1973 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus J. Fuhrer ◽  
Paul E. Baer ◽  
Connell O. Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Differential Conditioning ◽  
Stimulus Relations ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Electrodermal Responses

Resistance to Extinction of Conditioned Electrodermal Responses: A Study of the Incubation Fear Hypothesis

2002 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonifacio Sandin ◽  
Paloma Chorot
Keyword(s):  
Skin Conductance ◽  
Differential Conditioning ◽  
Skin Conductance Response ◽  
Conditioned Stimuli ◽  
Incubation Effect ◽  
Conditioning Paradigm ◽  
Resistance To Extinction ◽  
Undergraduate Women ◽  
Electrodermal Responses ◽  
Delay Differential

In the present study we examined Eysenck's incubation hypothesis of fear. Probability of skin conductance response (SCR) was analyzed for a sample of 79 undergraduate women, ranging in age from 18 to 25 years. Different groups of participants were conditioned to two levels of unconditioned stimuli (UCS) intensity and presented to three levels of unreinforced conditioned stimuli (CS) exposures (extinction phase) in a delay differential conditioning paradigm. The CSs were fear-relevant slides (snakes and spiders) and the UCSs were aversive tones. Analysis did not show a clear incubation effect; instead an increased resistance to extinction of SCR probability in association to the high-UCS and the short unreinforced CS presentation was evident. Findings support partially Eysenck's incubation theory of fear/anxiety.

Factors Influencing Electrophysiologic Responsivity in Normal Adults

1965 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-347
Author(s):  
Robert Goldstein ◽  
Benjamin RosenblÜt
Keyword(s):  
Conditioned Stimulus ◽  
White Light ◽  
Pure Tone ◽  
Alpha Rhythm ◽  
White Women ◽  
White Men ◽  
Inverse Relation ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Electrodermal Responses ◽  
Normal Adults

Electrodermal and electroencephalic responsivity to sound and to light was studied in 96 normal-hearing adults in three separate sessions. The subjects were subdivided into equal groups of white men, white women, colored men, and colored women. A 1 000 cps pure tone was the conditioned stimulus in two sessions and white light was used in a third session. Heat was the unconditioned stimulus in all sessions. Previously, an inverse relation had been found in white men between the prominence of alpha rhythm in the EEG and the ease with which electrodermal responses could be elicited. This relation did not hold true for white women. The main purpose of the present study was to answer the following questions: (1) are the previous findings on white subjects applicable to colored subjects? (2) are subjects who are most (or least) responsive electrophysiologically on one day equally responsive (or unresponsive) on another day? and (3) are subjects who are most (or least) responsive to sound equally responsive (or unresponsive) to light? In general, each question was answered affirmatively. Other factors influencing responsivity were also studied.

Using religious and personality variables to predict ambivalent sexism

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren E. Maltby ◽  
M. Elizabeth Lewis Hall ◽  
Tamara L. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Ambivalent Sexism ◽  
Personality Variables

Exploring personality variables as boundary conditions of the justice-job satisfaction relationship

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina Volpone ◽  
Cristina Rubino ◽  
Ari A. Malka ◽  
Christiane Spitzmueller ◽  
Lindsay Brown
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Satisfaction Relationship
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