Big Tales and Cool Heads: Academic Exaggeration Is Related to Cardiac Vagal Reactivity

Emotion

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 138-144

  Gramzow, Richard H ^a   Willard, Greg ^b   Mendes, Wendy Berry ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

academic performance; cardiac vagal tone; respiratory sinus arrhythmia; Self evaluation; self positivity bias

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; COLLEGE STUDENT; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART PREEJECTION PERIOD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VAGUS TONE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENTS; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 39449122709     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1528-3542.8.1.138     Document Type: Article

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