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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Anxiety Disord. 2008 Oct 15;23(4):469–476. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2008.10.002

Table 6.

Heart Rate and Skin Conductance by Task

Variable Social phobia (n = 20)
Shy (n = 25)
Non-Shy (n = 22)
M SD M SD M SD
Heart Rate (beats per minute)
 Baseline 78.7 12.9 78.5 12.4 81.2 11.1
 Opposite Sex Conversation 82.4 14.1 84.5 12.8 85.7 8.8
 Same Sex Conversation 81.6 13.4 83.5 13.3 82.7 10.2
 Speech 86.5 13.7 84.5 13.6 87.3 10.9
Skin Conductance (microSiemens)
 Baseline 4.8 3.4 3.4 2.4 3.6 1.7
 Opposite Sex Conversation 6.5 4.3 5.8 3.6 5.7 2.2
 Same Sex Conversation 7.0 4.8 6.0 3.6 5.9 2.3
 Speech 8.0 5.1 6.8 4.4 6.4 2.3