Experiencing positive affect and negative affect during stress: Relationships to cardiac reactivity and to facial expressions

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 327-337

  Heponiemi, Tarja ^a   Ravaja, Niklas ^a   Elovainio, Marko ^a   Näätänen, Petri ^a   Keltikangas Järvinen, Liisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Affect; Autonomic; Facial expression; Parasympathetic; Stress; Sympathetic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AFFECT; ARRHYTHMIA; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REACTION TIME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33748964458     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2006.00527.x     Document Type: Article

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