Autonomic reactivity, eyelid conditioning and their relationship to neuroticism and extraversion

No evidence was found to support the hypothesis that neurotic patients demonstrate over-reactivity of the autonomic nervous system in response to stressful stimuli, or that introverts and extraverts are characterised by ease and difficulty respectively with which they form conditioned responses. Normal controls, instead of showing the least autonomic reactivity as postulated, showed the greatest. The difficulties of measuring autonomic...