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Coronary Risk and Coping with Aversive Stimuli
Author(s) -
Doornen Lorenz J. P.,
Orlebeke J. F.,
Somsen Riek J. M.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1980.tb02305.x
Subject(s) - aversive stimulus , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , anxiety , audiology , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , coping (psychology) , developmental psychology , cardiology , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , computer science
In this research the effects of predictability of an aversive stimulus on GSR amplitude and the cardiac anticipation of that stimulus were investigated as a function of coronary risk. Thirty male infarction patients, 16 controls with high‐ and 18 controls with low‐infarction risk, received 10 aversive auditory stimuli, 5 of which were preceded by a warning signal. Predictability reduced GSR amplitude in all groups but significantly more in the low‐risk group as compared with the patients and the high‐risk group. Cardiac anticipatory acceleration was significantly stronger in the low risk group than in the other two groups. These results were discussed in terms of the effects of anxiety and attention on coping with aversive stimuli.