Embarrassment and social phobia: the role of parasympathetic activation
Embarrassment and social phobia: the role of parasympathetic activation
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DOI：
10.1016/s0887-6185(02)00197-4
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发表时间：
2003-01-01
影响因子：
10.3
通讯作者：
Roth, WT
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作者：
Gerlach, AL;Wilhelm, FH;Roth, WT
关于尴尬的心理生理学的少数研究表明副交感神经激活参与其中。然而，脸红，尴尬的标志和社交恐惧症的突出症状，更可能是由颈部交感神经流出引起的。迄今为止，没有证据表明面部血管有副交感神经支配。在这项研究中，一组社交恐惧症患者和对照组的参与者与两个人一起观看了一盘事先录制好的自己唱儿歌的录像带。自我报告的措施证实，这项任务引起尴尬。虽然在任务期间的呼吸性窦性心律不齐（RSA）的两个措施并没有表明副交感神经张力升高，心率（HR）和皮肤电导增加标志着交感神经激活。因此，我们的数据不支持副交感神经激活的增加在社交恐惧症和尴尬中起重要作用的观点。社交焦虑和尴尬都导致交感神经激活。出版社：Elsevier Science Inc.
The few studies on the psychophysiology of embarrassment have suggested involvement of parasympathetic activation. However, blushing, the hallmark of embarrassment and a prominent symptom in social phobia, is more likely to be produced by cervical sympathetic outflow. Hitherto, there has been no evidence of parasympathetic innervation of the facial blood vessels. In this study, a group of social phobics and control participants watched, together with a 2-person audience, a previously made videotape of themselves singing a children's song. Self-report measures confirmed that this task induced embarrassment. While two measures of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) during the task did not indicate heightened parasympathetic tone, increased heart rate (HR) and skin conductance marked sympathetic activation. Thus, our data do not support the notion that an increase in parasympathetic activation plays a significant role in social phobia and embarrassment. Social anxiety and embarrassment both resulted in sympathetic activation. Published by Elsevier Science Inc.