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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"physiological reactivity"”.
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Dispositional empathy and physiological reactivity: joint contributions to maternal sensitivity with toddler-aged children
… empathy and skin conductance level (SCL) reactivity in response to infant emotional cues as joint predictors of maternal sensitive behavior with their toddler-aged children. Sixty-four mother-toddler dyads (31 boys) were observed during a series of interaction tasks during a laboratory …
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The impact of virtual environment on physiological reactivity and perceived physiological arousal among students with public speaking anxiety and the mediating role of safety behaviors
… speaking anxiety (PSA) would demonstrate higher physiological reactivity and perceive higher physiological arousal to public speaking in a virtual reality (VR) environment than individuals with low PSA levels and whether this relationship would be mediated by safety behaviors. The sample in this …
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Psychopathy and Incapacity to Love: Role of Physiological Arousal
… classic characteristics. Moreover, the role of physiological responding in their romantic experiences has yet to be examined. The proposed study examined physiological reactivity (i.e., heart rate, HR; skin conductance, SC) as a mediator and moderator in the relationship between psychopathic …
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In every given moment : the affective, cognitive and physiological concomitants of mindfulness
… between mindfulness and affect, cognition and physiological reactivity to stress.
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Autonomic and Behavioral Reactivity to an Acute Laboratory Stressor
… biological systems. This project examined physiological and behavioral responses as indicators of stress and coping in the context of a psychosocial stressor in a controlled laboratory setting. We examined the association between indicators of behavioral coping and underlying physiological …
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African-American Males' Perception of Law Enforcement: A Psychophysiological Perspective
<p>This study compared the psychophysiological reactivity of African American and European American males to authority. Nineteen African American males and 23 European American males were randomly assigned to either be interrogated by a police officer, or see a police officer interrogate that …
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Neurophysiological Differences in Pain Reactivity: Why Some People are Tolerant to Pain
… intolerant to pain, little is known of the neurophysiological bases of these differences. Because differences in sensory information processing may underlie variability in tolerance to pain and because measures of sensory gating are used to explore differences in sensory information processing, …
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Behavioral, physiological, and neuropsychological correlates of hostility
… the right cerebral regulation of hostility and physiological arousal. First, replication of previous research supporting heightened physiological (systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, and heart rate) reactivity among high hostile subjects was attempted. Second, a positive …
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A Controlled Breathing Intervention for Women Undergoing MRI-Guided Breast Biopsy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
… from pain or relaxation during biopsy, decrease physiological reactivity, reduce pain catastrophizing, or increase self-efficacy for pain and anxiety from pre- to post-biopsy. These findings could be used to revise the controlled breathing intervention.</p>
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Can Computers Assist Treatment? Virtual Reality as a Possible Cue Exposure Technique With Adolescent Substance Abusers
… the feasibility of a virtual reality (VR) cue reactivity paradigm for adolescent cannabis abusers and to compare it to a video cue reactivity paradigm. Forty-two treatment-seeking youth with a cannabis use disorder completed the study, which incorporated three parts. During Part 1, drug and …
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Anger and denial as predictors of cardiovascular reactivity in women
Behavioral and physiological reactivity, and its relationship to cardiovascular disease has been studied in men for a number of years, and the expression of anger has been identified as a possible contributing factor. Few studies, however, have focused specifically on the reactivity of women, and …
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The role of memory for trauma in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder following traumatic brain injury and research portfolio
… a sample of adults with mild-severe TBI (n=21). Physiological reactivity (heart rate and activity level) was recorded in order to investigate the possible role of sub-conscious processes (such as implicit memory or fear conditioning) in the development of PTSD after TBI. PTSD symptoms were …
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The effects of active training strategies on children's acquisition of emergency skills and fear of fire
… skills, reducing fire-related fears and physiological arousal, and increasing self-efficacy and rationale for fire safety skills. Active subjects imitated videotaped models performing emergency behavior while receiving behavior-contingent feedback. Passive viewers received no practice or …
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New daters’ acute physiological responses to a standardized stressor : do nonadaptive hormone responses forecast romantic breakups?
… between general stress responses (i.e., reactivity and recovery) to a psychosocial stressor and nonmarital breakup status. Data were collected as part of a larger 9-month longitudinal study investigating the mental and physical health outcomes associated with relationship transitions …
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Mitigating Risk for Anxiety Among Preschool-Age Children Living in Poverty: Evaluating the Impact of Adult-Provided Social Support on Autonomic Stress Reactivity
… sympathetic and parasympathetic stress reactivity. Repeated patterns of high sympathetic activation and parasympathetic withdrawal place children at risk for anxiety disorders. This study evaluated whether providing social support to preschool-age children during mildly stressful …
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Differential responsiveness of repressors and sensitizers to stress
… hypothesis that repressors should show more physiological reactivity than sensitizers but report less state anxiety in the anticipation of stress as opposed to the experience of stress. Rather, the data demonstrated that it is the actual experience of stressful stimuli, and not the threat or …
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Parasympathethic Nervous Activity and Social Exclusion in Borderline Personality Disorder
… there is a significant amount of research on physiological reactivity in BPD, no studies adequately connect the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) responses of people with BPD to social exclusion which is critical to understand as the inability of the PNS of individuals with BPD to adapt to …
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The tell-tale body: investigating the intertwined relationship between social cognition and visual perception through physiological indices.
… this relationship. We aim to highlight the physiological foundations of the visual and cognitive aspects of social perception, postulating a reciprocal interaction between early perceptual processes and social predispositions. Through three studies, we investigated the special status of …
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Smokers' Responses to Fearful and Disgust-Eliciting Anti-Smoking Media
… only fear. We hypothesized that subjective and physiological responses to ads high in fear and have a disgust component would be greater than for the fear-only ads. We also predicted that the ads high in disgust would have higher rates of recall and engagement. Last, we predicted that …
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The effects of female gender role appraisal and body image threat on the stress responses of women: a validation of the feminine gender role stress scale
… who are more likely to evidence behavioral and physiological reactivity to a "feminine" (body image) stressor than a neutral control condition. The FGRS scale was developed to measure the cognitive tendency among women to appraise specific situations as stressful due to commitments, beliefs, and …
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