This study resumes and reevaluates the research on emotional functional autonomy developed by Vittorio Benussi in the 1920s, using hypnosuggestive methods. Four fundamental human emotions were studied in hypnosis: hope, happiness, despair, and unhappiness. Participants received training aimed at experiencing neutral hypnosis, characterized by the absence of any suggested images or suggested cognition. During the neutral hypnosis, the participants were asked to experience emotions isolated from all cognitive and imaginative experience so as to produce what can be assumed to be physiological responses driven by emotion only. The measured physiological variables were breathing and skin conductance. The study found evidence for a specific respiratory profile for each of the emotions examined.

本研究利用催眠暗示法，重新评估了维托里奥·贝努西 (Vittorio Benussi) 在 1920 年代开展的关于情绪功能自主性的研究。在催眠中研究了四种基本的人类情感：希望、快乐、绝望和不快乐。参与者接受了旨在体验中性催眠的培训，其特点是没有任何建议的图像或建议的认知。在中性催眠期间，参与者被要求体验与所有认知和想象经验隔离的情绪，从而产生可以假设为仅由情绪驱动的生理反应。测量的生理变量是呼吸和皮肤电导。该研究发现了所检查的每种情绪具有特定呼吸特征的证据。