The effects of verbal labelling on psychophysiology: Objective but not subjective emotion labelling reduces skin-conductance responses to briefly presented pictures

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 829-839

  McRae, Kateri ^a,b   Taitano, E Keolani ^a   Lane, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward mask; Biologically prepared; Emotion; Labelling; Skin conductance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RATING SCALE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 77954402581     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930902797141     Document Type: Article

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