Personality effects on cardiovascular reactivity: Need for closure moderates the impact of task difficulty on engagement-related myocardial beta-adrenergic activity

Psychophysiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 704-707

  Richter, Michael ^a   Baeriswyl, Eric ^a   Roets, Arne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Beta adrenergic activity; Need for closure; Pre ejection period; Sympathetic activity; Task difficulty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859578626     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2011.01350.x     Document Type: Article

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