Subception: fact or artifact?

Abstract

"The present paper has shown that the subseption effect reported by Lazarus and McCleary, (see 25: 7840), can be formulated as a partial correlation between the GSR and the stimulus with the verbal response held constant. The general case where such a partial correlation would be obtained is where both the GSR and verbal response are independently correlated with the stimulus, but not perfectly, and the error terms in these two response systems are not perfectly correlated with each other. Several sources of noncorrelated error between the GSR and the verbal response systems were considered.".