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The goal of this chapter is to survey selected psychophysiological methods used to measure emotion and to illustrate their application in psychopathology research. This chapter is intended to be sufficient to guide the reader to appropriate and specific psychophysiological measures, including the following popular psychophysiological methods: electrodermal activity, cardiovascular activity, brain electrical activity, and facial muscular activity (including the startle eyeblink reflex). Because of space constraints, this chapter is not intended to be a complete manual for conducting research. Please note that essential in-depth guidelines papers (see http://www.sprweb.org/ journal.html) are marked in the reference section with an asterisk, and several other sources from the Web site noted here provide excellent coverage of specific measures (Andreassi, 2000; Cacioppo, Tassinary, & Berntson, 2000a; Hugdahl, 2001; Stern, Ray, Si Quigley, 2000) as well as the pragmatics of setting up a psychophysiological laboratory (Curtin, Lozano, & Allen, in press). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)