The development and validation of sensory and emotional scales of touch perception

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 531-550

  Guest, Steve ^a   Dessirier, Jean Marc ^b   Mehrabyan, Anahit ^a   McGlone, Francis ^c   Essick, Greg ^a   Gescheider, George ^d   Fontana, Anne ^e   Xiong, Rui ^b   Ackerley, Rochelle ^c,f,g   Blot, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNILEVER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

^e Behavioral Measurements Inc   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^g SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Multidimensional scaling; Psychometric testing; Texture perception; Touch

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS; TOUCH; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; AROUSAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951958958     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0037-y     Document Type: Article

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