GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does galvanic skin response mean? 

• GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE (noun)
  The noun GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE has 1 sense:

1. a change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body

  Familiarity information: GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

electrical skin response; electrodermal response; Fere phenomenon; galvanic skin response; GSR; psychogalvanic response; Tarchanoff phenomenon

Hypernyms ("galvanic skin response" is a kind of...):

reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent)

Holonyms ("galvanic skin response" is a part of...):

lie detector (a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying)

 Context examples 

Also called galvanic skin response and skin conduction.

(Electrodermal response, NCI Dictionary)

Galvanic skin response increases in certain emotional states and during hot flashes that happen with menopause.

(Galvanic skin response, NCI Dictionary)