Test anxiety is a widespread and mostly detrimental emotion in learning and achievement
settings. Thus, it is a construct of high interest for researchers and its measurement is an …

Despite significant attention to the medical impacts of obesity, often ignored are the negative
outcomes that obese children and adults experience as a result of stigma, bias, and …

Preventing childhood obesity has become a top priority in efforts to improve our nation's
public health. Although much research is needed to address this health crisis, it is important …

The cardiovascular system is essential for life and has been a central focus of
psychophysiological investigation for several reasons. First, at least some its parameters …

Stress and Health: Biological and Psychological Interactions, by William R. Lovallo, is a brief
and accessible examination of psychological stress and its psychophysiological …

The authors examined White and Black participants' emotional, physiological, and
behavioral responses to same-race or different-race evaluators, following rejecting social …

In addition to numerous reports about psychophysiological stress responses to acute
stressors, there are few data available on gender differences of stress-induced heart rate …

Emergency department (ED) health care professionals often care for patients with previously
diagnosed psychiatric illnesses who are ill, injured, or having a behavioral crisis. In addition …

The United States ranks in the lower tiers of OECD countries in life expectancy, and recent
studies indicate that socioeconomic inequalities in health have been widening in the past …

An individual's tendency to show exaggerated or otherwise dysregulated cardiovascular
reactions to acute stressors has long been associated with increased risk for clinical and …