Autonomic and behavioral responding to concealed information: Differentiating orienting and defensive responses

Psychophysiology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 461-466

  Verschuere, Bruno ^a   Crombez, Geert ^a   De Clercq, Armand ^a   Koster, Ernst H W ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Concealed information test; Deception; Defensive response; Guilty knowledge; Orienting response; Probe reaction time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONCEALED INFORMATION TEST; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GUILT; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTING REFLEX; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STUDENT;

EID: 2642587439     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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