Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of response-proposition-oriented method, which was devised from Lang's theory of emotional imagery, on HR self-regulation tasks mediated by imagery ; especially, (1)to examine with or without subjects' intentions to regulate, and (2)to examin on bi-directional HR regulation. Main findings are as follows. Response-proposition-oriented method had positive effects on HR regulation, and interacted with subjects' intentions. A remarkable result is that the subjects' intentions were associated with a high correlation between HR-change and respiration-change, but response-proposition-oriented method weren't. These results indicate that this method is a useful instruction-set for HR self-regulation tasks mediated by imagery. It was suggested that this instruction-set has slightly different effects upon HR increase/decrease sessions.
