The significance of heart rate for behavior: A critique of Lacey's hypothesis.
Journal of Personality and Social PsychologyPublished 1 January 1972
Rogers Elliott
Citations63
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This examination consists of a review of relatively direct assessments of the validity of the hypothesis, of the status of the "intake-rejection" dimension and difficulties in its application, and of the relative merits of viewing cardiovascular events as causes rather than effects in psychologically relevant tasks.
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It is the purpose of this paper to examine critically Lacey's (1959, 1967; Laccy, Kagan, Laccy, & Moss, 1963) recent hypothesis about the relation between cardiovascular responses—especially heart rate—and performance on sundry tasks. This examination consists of a review of relatively direct assessments of the validity of the hypothesis, of the status of the intake-rejection dimension and difficulties in its application, and of the relative merits of viewing cardiovascular events as causes rather than effects in psychologically relevant tasks.
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