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influencing or altering the participants' moods. Perhaps
having the descriptors displayed one at a time on a visual
field for the participants to read would improve this
problem.
It may also be the case that the "mood estimation"
rationale given to Group C was simply not believable by the
sample of college students. Most of the sample were
psychology students, and all participants had been in
several experiments prior to volunteering for the present
study. Some degree of sophistication or knowledge about
experimental deception would be expected. It is also
possible that the "illogical" reason may not have been
enough of a challenge to activate a high degree of
sympathetic arousal and, consequently, to affect skin
temperature.
Another part of the manipulation, the touch, may also
have been too weak. The forehead was chosen as the site of
touch precisely because the literature (Kenshalo, 1978;
Tuan, Heslin, & Nquyen, 1975) indicated that it was one of
the most comfortable areas of the body to be touched. In
attempting to create an atmosphere of comfort for the
participants, it is likely that the strength of the
manipulation was lessened to the point of ineffectiveness if
being touched on the forehead was so comfortable that it did
not evoke noticeable emotional or physiological responses.
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Kohl, Rita Ann. Physiological and Psychological Parameters of Human Touch, dissertation, August 1992; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332744/m1/61/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .