What is it about?
Our study introduces how to measure the interpreters' stress through the interpreters electrodermal activity (EDA), including EDA basis that is relevant to interpreting studies, the selection of appropriate EDA measures and parameters for different interpreting contexts and concrete suggestions about how to design interpreting experiments that employ EDA measures.
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Why is it important?
Our study introduces the EDA measurement of stress in a relatively systematic way to interpreting scholars who wish to measure the interpreters' stress in empirical studies. We introduced the EDA basis that are relevant to interpreting studies in a reader friendly way to help lower the entry barrier into the realm of EDA for future interpreting studies. Meanwhile, we contribute to the standardisation of some tricky EDA terms that have led to ambiguity in existing interpreting studies. Moreover, we gave concrete suggestions about how to design interpreting experiments that employ EDA measurement as well as how to analyse EDA data.
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The reason for us to write this article is that we ourselves did encounter many difficulties and challenges when we conducted our own interpreting empirical study that involves EDA measurement. We spent a lot of time tackling those issues to find the appropriate way to conduct our own interpreting experiments and analyse our data. Yet, there are still quite a few things we wish we could have known before conducting our experiment. Therefore, we decided to share our experience to other interpreting scholars to help future studies find it more at ease when employing the EDA stress measurement.
Yifan Wang
Queen's University Belfast
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This page is a summary of: Shedding light on stress in interpreting studies, Translation Cognition & Behavior, December 2025, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/tcb.25015.wan.
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