The purpose of our study was to determine the effectiveness of stress balls in reducing the physiological symptoms of stress. We measured changes in heart rate, blood pressure, and skin conductance and compared the differences ...

The purpose of this experiment was to study the relationship between cognitive flexibility and cell phone anxiety measured by changes in the physiological responses of the human body often triggered by the sympathetic ...

As communication evolves, the criminal justice system will face new challenges in terms of lie detection. To date, it is unknown how physiological responses vary between face-to-face and electronic communication in evolving ...

Car accidents are a leading cause of death that primarily occur at night. There are many characteristics of night time driving that have been proposed to explain this phenomenon. Our group set out to determine if reaction ...

Stress and anxiety impact long term and short term recall, as people who experienced stress showed a decreased performance on word recall task in past studies. Mindful meditation is associated with reduced stress and an ...

Past research has shown that lavender is effective in reducing both physical and mental indicators of emotional stress but its effect on physical stress has yet to be determined. Physical and mental stress share many of ...