MEASURING EMOTIONS.
INSTRUMENT IN SYDNEY. [from our own correspondent.] SYDNEY, Aug, 9. Exports at the Sydney University have evolved an instrument worked largely 011 the principle of a wireless set, which measures minute changes that take place in tho human body under stress of various emotions. When an emotional change takes place in a person the sweat glands are stimulated. This stimulation may be measured by the pas f sago through the body of a weak electric current. The discharge from the glands offers resistance to this current, and the results are recorded on a dial. The subject of the experiment places hifj forefingers in two jars containing a. salt solution. These jars also contain electrodes of the instrument. Tho current thus passes through his body, and any emotional changes are registered. This instrument has been made for £lO, whereas similar apparatus in other parts of the world cost £6O or £7O.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20028, 18 August 1928, Page 12
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