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Skin resistance was monitored while 32 Ss watched the sweep-second-hand of a Universal Timer. They had previously been told that each time the second-hand reached the 30 sec. mark they would receive a strong, electric shock. The number and magnitude of anticipatory CR’s given during the eight conditioning trials were positively correlated with basal conductance and nonspecific GSR activity, and negatively correlated with the recruitment and recovery times of the UCR to shock. Nonspecific GSR activity was positively correlated with both basal conductance and magnitude of GSR to shock.
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Supported by research grant APA — 139 to R. D. Hare from the National Research Council of Canada. The correlations were computed by the University Computing Center.
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Hare, R.D., Creighton, T.D. & Hunt, L. Some indices of GSR activity in a long-delay conditioning paradigm. Psychon Sci 4, 207–208 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03342253
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