Abstract We investigated the effects of a serial presentation of short emotional stimuli on facial EMG, mood and autonomic functioning including total respiratory resistance (TRR). Twenty asthmatic and 20 nonasthmatic subjects viewed series of happy and ...
Abstract The present study examined whether volunteers with common colds showed impairments in objective and subjective indicators of alertness. All the volunteers (N = 81) were tested when healthy to provide baseline data for mood, simple and choice ...
Abstract The effects of physical training on autonomic response to acute stress are controversial. In this study, heart rate (HR) and skin conductance level (SCL) were continuously recorded in response to a mental stressor in a sample of elite athletes ...
Abstract This study analyzes the degree to which different amounts of training during a 4-month period affects salivary testosterone (Tsal), salivary cortisol (Csal) responses, and changes in the salivary testosterone/cortisol ratio (Tsal/Csal ratio) ...
How long induced moods last is a critical question for mood research, but has been only poorly addressed to date. In particular, physiological parameters have rarely been included to assess the effectiveness of mood induction procedures. We investigated ...
Objectives: Previous research suggests that mechanisms related to afferent and efferent components of the baroreflex are associated with blood pressure level and mood, and that mood as a component of subjective well-being may be mediated by changes in ...
Abstract. Sleep loss is known to severely disturb individuals’ mood and emotion processing. Here, we tested the hypothesis that quality of sleep is predictive of individuals’ performance on a task evaluating emotional empathy. We tested 34 ...