Too much of a good thing? Cardiac vagal tone's nonlinear relationship with well-being

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 599-604

  Kogan, Aleksandr ^a   Gruber, June ^b   Shallcross, Amanda J ^c   Ford, Brett Q ^d   Mauss, Iris B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac vagal tone; Depression; Happiness; Parasympathetic; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; BREATHING; BREATHING RATE; CARDIAC VAGAL TONE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FACE MUSCLE; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HEART CYCLE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; JEALOUSY; LIFE; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASYMPATHETIC FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SATISFACTION; SELF REPORT; SINUS ARRHYTHMIA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS TONE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84883259338     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032725     Document Type: Article

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