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On the automatic na...
On the automatic nature of phobic fear: Conditioned electrodermal responses to masked fear-relevant stimuli
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- Soares, Joaquim, 1947- (author)
- Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Öhman, Arne, 1947- (author)
- Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
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- 1993
- 1993
- English.
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In: Journal of Abnormal Psychology. - 0021-843X .- 1939-1846. ; 102:1, s. 121-132
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- Normal subjects (n = 64) were exposed either to pictures of snakes and spiders or to pictures of flowers and mushrooms in a differential conditioning paradigm in which one of the pictures signaled an electric shock. In a subsequent extinction series, these stimuli were presented backwardly masked by another stimulus for half of the subjects, whereas the other half received non-masked extinction. In support of a hypothesis that suggests that nonconscious information-processing mechanims are sufficient to activate responses to fear-relevant stimuli, differential skin conductance response to masked conditioning and control stimuli was obvious only for subjects conditioned to fear-relevant stimuli. These results were replicated in a second experiment (n = 32), which also demonstrated that the effect was unaffected by which visual half-field was used for stimulus presentation.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
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- Public health medicine research areas
- Folkhälsomedicinska forskningsområden
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