Journal
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
Volume 49, Issue 3, Pages 369-374Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01309.x
Keywords
Glabrous skin; Mental sweating; Nonthermal sweating; Psychological sweating; Sudomotor
Funding
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior-CAPES (Ministry of Education, Brazil)
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Recent experiments revealed psychological sweating to be a ubiquitous phenomenon in passively heated individuals. Since heating potentiates sweating, and since most research into psychological sweating was not conducted in this thermal state, these observations required thermoneutral verification. Thermoneutral subjects performed mental arithmetic (at 26oC) with psychological sweating evaluated from nine sites (ventilated capsules, skin conductance). Discharged sweating was evident from three glabrous sites (P??.05). These thermoneutral observations further refute the proposition that psychological sweating in humans is restricted to the glabrous skin surfaces.
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