title: Social evaluation and cardiovascular response: an active coping approach.
abstract: Cardiovascular effects of social evaluation were examined under different task conditions. In Experiment 1, systolic responses in women were greater under public than private conditions when a fixed behavioral challenge was difficult, but not when the challenge was easy. In Experiment 2, social evaluation potentiated systolic responsivity in men and women when a behavioral challenge was unfixed, but not when a behavioral challenge was fixed and easy to meet. Results are discussed in terms of a recent integrative analysis of effort and cardiovascular response as well as alternative conceptions that posit, or might be taken to imply, an association between publicity and physiologic activation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294-1170, USA.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Tunstall
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Goodwin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Harmon-Jones
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal; D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D001794:Blood Pressure; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment; D012938:Social Perception