Digestive and cardiovascular responses to core and animal-reminder disgust

Biological Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 149-157

  van Overveld, W J M ^a   de Jong, Peter J ^b   Peters, Madelon L ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood Phobia; Disgust; Psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DIGESTIVE FUNCTION; DISGUST; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; GUIDED IMAGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYMPTOM; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SALIVA; SELF CONCEPT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 59349093821     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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