Is freezing an adaptive reaction to threat? Evidence from heart rate reactivity to emotional pictures in victims of war and torture

Psychophysiology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 315-322

  Adenauer, Hannah ^a   Catani, Claudia ^b   Keil, Julian ^a   Aichinger, Hannah ^a   Neuner, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Heart rate; Psychopathological

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TORTURE; WAR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; CUES; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TORTURE; WAR;

EID: 76349092716     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2009.00940.x     Document Type: Article

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