Skin Resistance Responses to Ancestral and Modern Threat Stimuli from 119 Participants

Iveta Štolhoferová's dataset contains psychophysiological recordings from 119 participants reacting to images of ancestral and modern threats. The data includes skin resistance (SR) measurements and subjective fear ratings for stimuli depicting venomous snakes, heights, airborne diseases, and firearms. The dataset was last updated on March 18, 2026.

Use Cases

• Classifying threat stimuli based on elicited skin resistance change probability.
• Modeling the relationship between subjective fear ratings and physiological response intensity.
• Comparing psychophysiological response patterns between evolutionary (ancestral) and contemporary (modern) threat categories.

Strengths

• Includes data from 119 human participants.
• Contains both objective skin resistance measurements and subjective fear ratings.
• Compares four distinct threat categories: snakes, heights, airborne diseases, and firearms.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Iveta Štolhoferová via figshare

Collection Method

Collected recordings of participants' skin resistance and fear ratings in response to visual threat stimuli.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 17:23:38; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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