Autonomic reactions to mutilation pictures: Positive affect facilitates safety signal processing

Psychophysiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 870-873

  Oliveira, Laura A S ^a   Oliveira, Leticia ^b   Joffily, Mateus ^a   Pereira Junior, Pedro P ^a   Lang, Peter J ^c   Pereira, Mirtes G ^b   Figueira, Ivan ^a   Volchan, Eliane ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective pictures; Electrodermal; Emotion; Heart rate; Positive affect; Safety

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUTILATION PICTURE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITIVE AFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 66949124630     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00812.x     Document Type: Article

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