Heart rate and blood pressure responses to a competitive role-playing game

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 351-359

  Ricarte, J ^b   Salvador, A ^a   Costa, R ^b   Torres, M J ^b   Subirats, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Competition; Heart rate; Humans

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354442     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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