Incentive, anxiety, and the human blink rate.

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Two hypotheses were tested: That frequency of blinking would increase during intertrial intervals on a visually guided task with increased incentive for performance, and that individuals who score high on inventories of anxiety have high blink rates. 65 Ss were divided into two groups, a high-low incentive group and a low-high incentive group. Results indicated that the first hypothesis was verified. The second hypothesis was substantiated in correlation with the Rotter Sentence Completion Test but not with the tension-motivation inventory. It was concluded that the blink rate can be used as an index of generalized muscular tension. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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