An individual's emotions system can be conceived of as a synchronized, coordinated, and/or emergent combination of physiology, experience, and behavioral components. Together, the interplay among these components produce emotional experiences through coordinated excitatory positive feedback (i.e., the mutual amplification of emotion concordance)…

Encourages more frequent use of psychophysiological methods and perspectives in counseling research. Addresses three questions: (1) how counseling psychology has been studied up to now using psychophysiological methods; (2) which psychophysiological methods may prove useful for future research; and (3) some important questions to be answered using…

Psychometric properties of Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale were examined. Evidence supported the theoretical notion of an individual difference variable in arousal-seeking. Other evidence, however, suggested that measurement problems continue to hamper research: the total score was moderately reliable, but the subscales were only marginally…