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Psychosomatic Medicine 29:598-605 (1967)
© 1967 American Psychosomatic Society

Autonomic Reaction Magnitude and Habituation to Different Voices

BERNARDO GAVIRIA M.D.1

1 Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kans.; University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Colo.

This experiment studied habituation to and magnitude of electrodermal, plethysmographic, and heart rate changes in response to 4 auditory stimuli: (1) noise, (2) the subject's own voice, (3) the subject's spouse's voice, and (4) unknown persons' voices. Although consistent interstimulus differences are small, habituation seems to be slowest to noise, next slowest to one's own voice and the spouse's voice, and fastest for unfamiliar voices. Interpersonal factors independent of the verbal message may be reflected in the pattern of autonomic reaction. However, an orienting reaction element seems to have been intense enough to obscure specific interstimulus response differences.

Submitted on October 3, 1966




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