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Type D personality and hemodynamic reactivity to laboratory stress in women
(Elsevier, 2011)
Abstract
The Type D personality (identified by high levels of both negative affectivity and social
inhibition) has been associated with negative health consequences in cardiac patients.
However, few studies have explored ...
Benefit of social support for resilience-building is contingent on social context: Examining cardiovascular adaptation to recurrent stress in women
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)
Abstract
Previous work on social support and stress tolerance using laboratory-based cardiovascular
stress response paradigms has suggested that perceived social support may be effective in
building resilience in ...
Perceptual modalities: modes of presentation or modes of interaction?
(Imprint Academic, 2010)
Perceptual modalities have been traditionally considered
the product of dedicated biological systems producing information for
higher cognitive processing. Psychological and neuropsychological
evidence is offered which ...
Searching for moral dumbfounding: identifying measurable indicators of moral dumbfounding
(2017)
Moral dumbfounding is defined as maintaining a moral judgement, without supporting reasons. The most cited demonstration of dumbfounding does not identify a specific measure of dumbfounding and has not been published in ...
The development of a new sport-specific classification of coping and a meta-analysis of the relationship between different coping strategies and moderators on sporting outcomes
(Frontiers, 2016)
There is an ever growing coping and sports performance literature, with researchers using many different methods to assess performance and different classifications of coping. As such, it makes it difficult to compare ...
Enacting a social ecology: radically embodied intersubjectivity
(Frontiers, 2014)
Embodied approaches to cognitive science frequently describe the mind as “world-involving, ”indicating complementary and interdependent relationships between an agent and its environment. The precise nature of the environment ...
Relationships between mental toughness, barriers to exercise, and exercise behaviour in undergraduate students
(University of Wollongong, Australia, 2017)
The present study explored relationships between mental toughness (MT), barriers to exercise, and self reported exercise behaviour in university students. Perceived barriers to exercise are important since previous work ...
Nutritional knowledge and eating habits of professional rugby league players: does knowledge translate into practice?
(BioMed Central, 2015)
Background: Adequate nutrient intake is important to support training and to optimise performance of elite athletes. Nutritional knowledge has been shown to play an important role in adopting optimal nutrition practices. ...
How mean is the mean?
(Frontiers, 2013)
In this paper we voice concerns about the uncritical manner in which the mean is often used as a summary statistic in psychological research. We identify a number of implicit assumptions underlying the use of the mean and ...