In this study, heart rate and skin conductance were measured during each memory recollection, and beforehand as a control.
Explore the results below:
This line graph depicts the combined three data points for each skin conductance measurement (control = black, pre-story = green, post-story = blue) per respective participant. The y-axis displays stress events that occurred over the two-minute measurement period, while the x-axis denotes participant number.
This line graph depicts the data points for each participants' control (light green) and pre-story (dark green) skin conductance measurement. The y-axis shows the number of stress events that occurred over the two-minute measurement period, while the x-axis denotes each participant by number.
This line graph depicts the data points for each participants' control (dark blue) and post-story (light blue) skin conductance measurement. The y-axis shows the number of stress events that occurred over the two-minute measurement period, while the x-axis denotes each participant by number.
Participants were asked to rate their perceived stress levels after each memory recall (pre-story and post-story). This bar graph shows how many participants reported a change in perceived stress levels, and whether they experienced more or less stress upon their second memory recall.
This line graph depicts the combined three data points for each heart rate measurement (control = green, pre-story = blue, post-story = yellow) per respective participant. The y-axis displays average heart rate in BPM over the two-minute measurement period, while the x-axis denotes participant number.
Below is a word cloud of the combined transcripts of the stories.
The audio from each story was transcribed, then combined and fed into a word cloud generator. Words that appear most often across stories are the largest. After disregarding filler words, the top three most used words were “know”, “home”, and “COVID”.
