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
   "The lie detector measured the subject's GSR";
   - galvanic skin response, psychogalvanic response, electrodermal response, electrical skin response, Fere phenomenon, Tarchanoff phenomenon

Type of: reaction, response

Part of: lie detector

Encyclopedia: GSR