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. 2025 May 9:16:1440721.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1440721. eCollection 2025.

Utilizing ECG data in educational psychology research: insights and limitations

Sigrid Hackl-Wimmer  1 , Helmut Karl Lackner  2 , Marina Tanja Waltraud Eglmaier  2 , Lars Eichen  3 , Manuela Paechter  1
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Utilizing ECG data in educational psychology research: insights and limitations

Sigrid Hackl-Wimmer et al. Front Psychol. .
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Keywords: ECG; educational psychology research; learning processes; motivation; objective/subjective data; psychophysiological data.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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