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The Status of Skin Conductance Recovery Time: An Examination of the Bundy Effect
Author(s) -
Venables P. H.,
Fletcher R. P.
Publication year - 1981
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.1469-8986.1981.tb01533.x
Subject(s) - skin conductance , psychology , psychopathology , task (project management) , developmental psychology , social psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , management , biomedical engineering , economics
The independent status of recovery of the skin conductance response has been an important assumption underlying work in which electrodermal responses to different task demands have been examined or in studies in which different psychopathological groups have been differentiated. Doubts on this issue have recently been raised by Bundy and Fitzgerald (1975). The present study examines data on this point from two samples and suggests that it is still worthwhile to treat SCR recovery as an independent variable.