Sympathetic and parasympathetic responses to a core disgust video clip as a function of disgust propensity and disgust sensitivity

Biological Psychology

Volumn 88, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 174-179

  De Jong, Peter J ^a   van Overveld, Mark ^b   Peters, Madelon L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disgust; Disgust propensity; Disgust sensitivity; Heart rate variability; Parasympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISGUST; DISGUST PROPENSITY; DISGUST SENSITIVITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DEGLUTITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FACIAL MUSCLES; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053105127     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: 18736246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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