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Braithwaite, Jason J., Watson, Derrick G. and Dewe, Hayley (2020) The Body-Threat Assessment Battery (BTAB) : a new instrument for the quantification of threat-related autonomic affective responses induced via dynamic movie clips. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 155 . pp. 16-31. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.04.018 ISSN 0167-8760.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.04.018
Abstract
We present a new instrument for the assessment of responses to threat-related imagery directed towards a human body – the Body-Threat Assessment Battery (BTAB). The BTAB consists of a series of high-definition dynamic clips depicting body-threats and matched non-threat baseline behaviours. For body-threat stimuli a perspective manipulation was included to assess the effects of viewing threats from the point-of-view of the observer (POV) or from an external/exocentric perspective (EXO). Green-screen technology was used so that extraneous background information could be removed and standardised in post-production. Categorical normative data for psychological ratings (valence, arousal and pain), psychophysiological, phasic skin conductance responses (SCRs) and tonic skin conductance levels (SCLs) were obtained for all stimuli. Body-threat stimuli evoked significantly higher psychological ratings of arousal and pain, with more negative ratings of valence, relative to baseline stimuli. In addition, threat stimuli also had an increased efficacy at evoking SCRs, and these were significantly stronger relative to baseline stimuli. There were no effects of perspective on psychophysiological or psychological responses to threat imagery. The findings are discussed in the context of the utility and scope of the BTAB for supporting neurocognitive investigations of aversive imagery and body-threats specifically in the study of embodiment, body-processing and self-consciousness.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Body image, Human-computer interaction, Cognitive science, Body schema -- Psychological aspects, Self (Philosophy) | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Psychophysiology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0167-8760 | ||||||||
Official Date: | September 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 155 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 16-31 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.04.018 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 May 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 May 2021 | ||||||||
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