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Noun: electrical skin response
  1. A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body
    - galvanic skin response, GSR, psychogalvanic response, electrodermal response, Fere phenomenon, Tarchanoff phenomenon

Derived forms: electrical skin responses

Type of: reaction, response

Part of: lie detector

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