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To determine how racial identity, hostility, and optimism interact with past exposure to discrimination to influence cardiovascular reactivity and recovery during an acute stress task.

November 1, 2007Health Psychology

Discrimination, dispositions, and cardiovascular responses to stress.

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To determine how racial identity, hostility, and optimism interact with past exposure to discrimination to influence cardiovascular reactivity and recovery during an acute stress task.
Assessed a community sample of 165 normotensive Black and White adults during an anger recall task.
Continuously monitored blood pressure and heart rate to measure indicators of cardiovascular reactivity and post-stress recovery.
Participants with higher past discrimination exposure, lower cynicism, or higher optimism experienced greater cardiovascular reactivity and slower physiological recovery following the anger recall task.
Black participants exhibited significantly more acute reactivity and slower cardiovascular recovery than White participants, though both groups shared a similar overall pattern of effects.

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Laboratory study reveals heightened cardiovascular reactivity and slower recovery in adults with past discrimination exposure, suggesting discrimination functions as a chronic physiological stressor.

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Richman et al. (2007) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0d3359cae7912d2fa4d2ef https://doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.26.6.675

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Laboratory study reveals heightened cardiovascular reactivity and slower recovery in adults with past discrimination exposure, suggesting discrimination functions as a chronic physiological stressor.

Discrimination, dispositions, and cardiovascular responses to stress.

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Discrimination, dispositions, and cardiovascular responses to stress.

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