MEASUREMENT OF EMOTION.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18412, 19 June 1925, Page 15

MEASUREMENT OF EMOTION.

,' SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY'S ,i " LECTURE. \. ■ • ■ * \ _ • . . .- . j A. person is generally interested in finding out j{ he is emotional and to what extent. An- exact scientifio method of measuring' the human emotions was demonstrated by Mr C. E. Beeby, in his lecture before the College Scientifio Society laßt evening. It -was entitled ."The Measurement of Human Emotions." t , Mr L C. .Stephens presided over a good ** attendance ijf The lecturer showed how such emotions' $ jconld bo measured by an instrument which % depended for its functioning on the relation <a of electrical resistance to emotional reaigtf- £ anoe and why one could be taken as equiva- * lent to the other. On the instrument the J different dogrees ri emotionalism shown by W ( i .different tests wore indicated by means of ■| a pointor on a graduated scale. The difierent effects of. deep . breathing, coughing ft ,»nd the presence of something hurtful, wore 7a v-denionsfrated. f,' Several theories had been put forth as jf tnt nothing definite was known at present. ■ A now experiment illustrating the effect of " ' emotions on electric resistance was also ! *• J tried. Mr Beeby was accorded a vote of thanks. t 7 ■' "