A racing heart, rattling knees, and ruminative thoughts: Defining, explaining, and treating public speaking anxiety

GD Bodie - Communication education, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Considered by many to be the foundation upon which our discipline was built, the study of
public speaking has evolved from its humble beginnings into a vast literature of …

More than a feeling: Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is characterized by reliable changes in affect and physiology

GL Poerio, E Blakey, TJ Hostler, T Veltri - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) describes the experience of tingling
sensations in the crown of the head, in response to a range of audio-visual triggers such as …

The motion of emotion: Idiodynamic case studies of learners' foreign language anxiety

T Gregersen, PD MacIntyre… - The Modern Language …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Language learning is an emotionally and psychologically dynamic process that is influenced
by a myriad of ever‐changing variables and emotional “vibes” that produce moment‐by …

What is autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR)? A narrative review and comparative analysis of related phenomena

A Mahady, M Takac, A De Foe - Consciousness and Cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
A narrative review of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) was carried out.
Definitional factors relevant to ASMR were canvassed. Related, but distinctly unique …

[PDF][PDF] The interspeech 2014 computational paralinguistics challenge: Cognitive & physical load, multitasking

B Schuller, S Steidl, A Batliner, J Epps… - … 2014, 15th Annual …, 2014 - mediatum.ub.tum.de
Abstract The INTERSPEECH 2014 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge provides for
the first time a unified test-bed for the automatic recognition of speakers' cognitive and …

Caffeine effects on resting-state arousal

RJ Barry, JA Rushby, MJ Wallace, AR Clarke… - Clinical …, 2005 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: This study examined the use of caffeine to manipulate arousal level without the
confounds associated with task-related activation. From previous work in our laboratory, an …

Multivariate brain prediction of heart rate and skin conductance responses to social threat

H Eisenbarth, LJ Chang, TD Wager - Journal of Neuroscience, 2016 - Soc Neuroscience
Psychosocial stressors induce autonomic nervous system (ANS) responses in multiple body
systems that are linked to health risks. Much work has focused on the common effects of …

Exploring individual differences of public speaking anxiety in real-life and virtual presentations

M Yadav, MN Sakib, EH Nirjhar, K Feng… - IEEE Transactions …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Public speaking is a vital skill for making good impressions, effectively exchanging ideas,
and influencing others. Yet, public speaking anxiety (PSA) ranks as a top social phobia …

Perceiving blocks of emotional pictures and sounds: effects on physiological variables

AM Brouwer, N Van Wouwe, C Mühl… - Frontiers in human …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Most studies on physiological effects of emotion-inducing images and sounds examine
stimulus locked variables reflecting a state of at most a few seconds. We here aimed to …

The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity

P Barbieri, P Sarasso, F Lodico… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Pursuing new knowledge in the entropic environment is pivotal for survival. However,
dealing with uncertainty is a costly challenge for the agent surrounded by the stochastic …