Human experimental anxiety: actual public speaking induces more intense physiological responses than simulated public speaking

Objectives: a) To perform a systematic and meta-analytic review to verify whether the Simulated Public Speaking Task (SPST) leads to a greater increase in self-rated anxiety than in physiological correlates of anxiety; and b) to compare the results obtained with the SPST with an actual public speaki...

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Main Authors: Antonio Waldo Zuardi, José Alexandre de Souza Crippa, Jaime Eduardo Cecílio Hallak, Ricardo Gorayeb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2013-09-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462013000300248&lng=en&tlng=en