Population
Individuals assessed for affective instability in daily life
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Should not yet change practice; hypothesis-generating for autonomic-emotion links, needing prospective confirmation.
Lower resting heart rate variability, a marker of parasympathetic tone, is associated with greater instability of positive affect in daily life.
Koval et al. (2013) studied this question.
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