Attitude as a Moderator of Autonomic Reactivity

人们认为态度具有多种功能。 它们影响 感知和信息处理。 这项建议旨在 识别到目前为止仅被弯曲建议功能， 即态度对决策的促进作用 在紧张的情况下。 我们从先前的心理生理学 涉及积极应对威胁或 挑战引起心率更大的增量，心脏 输出量、收缩压和心肌收缩力。 这项研究的问题是， 在涉及既定态度的情况下，威胁将 表现出比小说中的个体更少的反应（态度） 设置. 该提案的优势在于它融合了 心理生理学测量与态度方面的专业知识 测量和归纳提供了一个答案，这一重要的 问题 这两种方法的结合是新颖的， 重要的，并承诺在互动的信息很多 社会认知（态度）和生理学。 这项研究可以 增加了我们对压力的影响的理解。 人的功能和表现。

Attitudes are thought to serve many functions. They influence perception and information processing. This proposal seeks to identify a function that to this point has only ben suggested, namely, the facilitative effects of attitudes on decision making in stressful contexts. We know from prior psychophysiological work that tasks involving active coping with threat or challenging evoke greater increments in heart rate, cardiac output, systolic blood pressure, and myocardial contractility. The issue of this research is whether an individual coping with a threat in a situation involving well-established attitudes will show less reactivity than an individual in a novel (attitudinal) setting. The strength of the proposal is that it melds psychophysiological measurement with expertise in attitudinal measurement and induction to provide an answer to this important question. The combination of these two approaches is novel and important, and promises much information on the interaction of social cognition (attitudes) and physiology. This research could add appreciably to out understanding of the effects of stress on human functioning and performance.