Picture media and emotion: Effects of a sustained affective context

Psychophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 662-670

  Bradley, Margaret M ^a   Cuthbert, Bruce N ^a   Lang, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Emotion; Habituation; Media; Pictures; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STARTLE REFLEX;

ADULT; ATTENTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 0029905652     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1996.tb02362.x     Document Type: Article

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