Cultural context moderates the relationship between emotion control values and cardiovascular challenge versus threat responses

Biological Psychology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 521-530

  Mauss, Iris B ^a   Butler, Emily A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular threat versus challenge; Cultural differences; Emotion; Values

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL VALUE; EMOTION; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASIAN AMERICANS; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 77953535209     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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