Recent behavioral and biomedical research has suggested that psychophysiologic
responsiveness (reactivity) to emotional stress may be a marker of processes involved in the …

In reasoning about everyday problems, people use statistical heuristics (ie, judgmental tools
that are rough intuitive equivalents of statistical principles). Statistical heuristics have …

To assess the causal relation between acute mental stress and myocardial ischemia, we
evaluated cardiac function in selected patients during a series of mental tasks (arithmetic, the …

Eight years ago, four psychologists with varying backgrounds but a common in terest in the
impact of environmental stress on behavior and health met to plan a study of the effects of …

People possess an abstract inferential rule system that is an intuitive version of the law of
large numbers. Because the rule system is not tied to any particular content domain, it is …

All of the sciences―physical, biological, and social―have a need for quantitative measurement.
This influential series, Foundations of Measurement, established the formal foundations …

▪ Abstract An extensive research literature in the behavioral sciences and medicine suggests
that psychological and social factors may play a direct role in organic coronary artery …

Background. Mental stress can cause angina in patients with coronary artery disease, but Its
effects on coronary vasomotion and blood flow are poorly understood. Because …

The basis for selective death of specific neuronal populations in neurodegenerative
diseases remains unclear. Parkinson's disease (PD) is a synucleinopathy characterized by a …

Reports the development and validation of the Krantz Health Opinion Survey, a measure of
preferences for different treatment approaches. This measure yields a total score and 2 …