Vigilance In African Americans: Cardiovascular reactivity and phasic heart period reactions to cued threat and nonthreat stimuli

African Americans are at a greater risk of developing cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors than are Whites, and recent research has suggested that the effects of racial discrimination are a significant contributor to this disparity. Thus, a preattentive bias and vigilance for threat mi...

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Main Author: King, Thomas Starr
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2006
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/2587
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3586&context=etd