What is it about?
This paper describes a lab study devoted to analyze the wide range of individual variability in the cardiovascular responses to stressful tasks.
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Why is it important?
We have found that belief in the own perceived capacity to perform a task jointly with the prediction about the consequences of this performance affect to the intensity of changes in heart and blood vessels activity when the persons do a task.
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This is a study that contribute to understand the cognitive processes underlying the biological changes facing actions and their probable consequences. These results could improves our comprehension about the negative long-term effect of stress on health.
Dr Antoni Sanz
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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This page is a summary of: The role of perceived control in physiological reactivity: self-efficacy and incentive value as regulators of cardiovascular adjustment, Biological Psychology, June 2001, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/s0301-0511(01)00095-3.
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