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This article attempts to provide guidelines for acceptable practice in thermal biofeedback training. Criteria are set forth in three major areas: the nature of the interaction between the experimenter/therapist and subject/patient, training procedures, and the physical characteristics of the temperature sensing and feedback system.
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This research was supported by NIH Grant HL 21323 and by ARPA of DOD under ONR Contract N00014-70-C-0350 to the San Diego State College Foundation. We thank Dr. Joseph Rothberg for the design and construction of the feedback system and Maurice Swinnen for the design and construction of the thermistor probes and thermistor bridges of the first analog temperature training device employed in this laboratory. Alfred Jaknuinas designed and built our current digital temperature system. We are grateful to our collaborators who helped in the conduct of different stages of the research, in particular, Paul Slattery, Cleeve S. Emurian, Priscilla Howell, and Susan N. Rice.
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Taub, E., School, P.J. Some methodological considerations in thermal biofeedback training. Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation 10, 617–622 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03205359
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03205359