Smoking, physiological arousal, and emotional response.
Smoking, physiological arousal, and emotional response.
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吸烟、生理唤醒和情绪反应。
DOI:
10.1037/h0034256
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发表时间:
1973
影响因子:
7.6
通讯作者:
P. Nesbitt
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作者:
P. Nesbitt
The physiological and psychological effects of smoking a cigarette are seemingly in contradiction to each other. When smokers smoke, their level of physiological arousal goes up, while they report themselves calmer and more relaxed. In contrast, when a heightened physiological arousal level is induced in naive Ss, they behave and report themselves as more emotional. To explore this situation, a measure of emotional response (pain tolerance) was obtained while 30 smoker and 30 nonsmoker male college students smoked a cigarette or simulated smoking with an unlit cigarette. 2 cigarettes of different nicotine content were used, and S's physiological response to each of the 3 conditions was measured by change in pulse rate during the condition. Emotional responses were assessed by a" feeling state" questionnaire administered several times during the experiment. The data indicate that, for both smokers and nonsmokers, smoking produced more physiological arousal than simulated smoking, and the high-nicotine cigarette produced more physiological arousal than the low-nicotine cigarette. For smokers only, these arousal differences were accompanied by differences in emotional response. Smokers were less emotional when smoking than when simulating smoking, and with the high-nicotine cigarette than with the low-nicotine cigarette. Furthermore, those smokers who showed the largest changes in pulse rate between conditions also showed the largest changes in emotional response. Results imply that physiological arousal is important for the emotional effects of smoking for experienced smokers, but in a direction counter to intuitive expectations.(15 ref.)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)