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Peer reviewedPittner, Mark S.; Houston, B. Kent – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1980
Examines (1) whether Type A individuals respond with more psychophysiological arousal to threat to self-esteem than to threat of shock, (2) whether differences between Type A and Type B individuals in psychophysiological responses are greater under high than low stress, and (3) whether Type A and Type B individuals differ in how they cognitively…
Descriptors: Adults, Arousal Patterns, College Students, Heart Disorders
Peer reviewedHouston, B. Kent – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1972
Descriptors: Anxiety, Arousal Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Beliefs
Peer reviewedHouston, B. Kent – Journal of Research in Personality, 1983
Reviews studies in which the psychophysiological responses of Type A and B subjects were studied in various contexts. It appears that Type A's manifest greater psychophysiological arousal in solitary as well as interpersonal situations in which there is a moderate external incentive to accomplish something and an intermediate probability of…
Descriptors: Adults, Arousal Patterns, Individual Differences, Interpersonal Relationship
