Dear Colleagues,
I am about to start working with some aversive learning paradigms in humans and wanted to ask for some suggestions on measuring fear responses to threat/mild pain stimuli.
Specifically, I wonder if you could share some tricks and tips on how to improve quality and reliability of galvanic skin response (which, I know, is inherently noisy and can be tricky to collect in some subjects) or maybe recommend some good ways/techniques to complement it (e.g. by combining with heart rate variability, etc).
Many thanks in advance!
Blood pressure, pulse, capacity to concentrate, echoplanar functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for amygdala's role in conditioned fear responses and extinction and so on. Watson's little Albert experiment is famous, the 9-mo. old child developed a fear of a white laboratory rat combined with a loud noise and then generalized the fear to many furry soft white things. For the extinction of the fear it was thought to feed him with his favorite sweets every time the fear-arousing rat or things he feared came close. If i remember correctly little Albert was removed before the extinction took place and professor Watson fell in love with his helping student Rayner during the experiment and was fired (he was married). Also during my study years a girl got pregnant because of our professor's stupid experiments. So calculate the dangers on all levels:)
Later on many researchers have added their version of this experiment.
Thanks Beatrice. Will keep this in mind.
Yes, fMRI it's certainly in the list - I should have probably clarified this.. was wondering if there had been any advances in the way we measure peripheral responses.
P.S.:
What a toxic study environment you had..
These links may help you
https://www.google.com/patents/US20140378859
https://books.google.com.my/books/about/Design_of_an_Instrument_to_Improve_Galva.html?id=7uEUAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0013469473901569
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1416975
https://imotions.com/blog/galvanic-skin-response/
https://www.scribd.com/document/43715806/Galvanic-Skin-Response
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