A heart and A Mind: Self-distancing facilitates the association between heart rate variability, And wise reasoning

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue APRIL, 2016, Pages

  Grossmann, Igor ^a   Sahdra, Baljinder K ^b   Ciarrochi, Joseph ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attributions; Egocentrism; Heart rate variability; Psychological distance; Reasoning; Vagal tone; Wisdom

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; VAGUS TONE;

EID: 84967285816     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00068     Document Type: Article

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