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Re: Balancing acceptance and change

Posted by alexandra_k on June 14, 2009, at 18:56:42

In reply to Re: Balancing acceptance and change » alexandra_k, posted by Sigismund on June 14, 2009, at 15:12:41

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_skin_response

Sorry got my initials mixed up (now thats embarrassing that occurred in my Masters thesis - I wonder if I was misquoting others).

It is often used as a measure of 'physiological arousal' where heightened response is meant to signify the intensity of emotional experience. There isn't a nice linear mapping or anything, so it is problematic. But the basic idea is that some forms of what we regard to be 'emotional' distress seem correlated with very intense arousal whereas other forms of what we regard to be 'emotional' distress seem to be correlated with very low arousal (e.g., there are some delusions that arise from depression that seem to have to do with absent SCR to some stimuli e.g., faces of familiar others).

 

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