Trial reportJournal of experimental psychology. General2012
Mind over matter: reappraising arousal improves cardiovascular and cognitive responses to stress.
Trial report in Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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112 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effectiveness of stress arousal reappraisal and stress-is-enhancing mindset interventions on task performance outcomes: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- Psychophysiological Effects of Downregulating Negative Emotions: Insights From a Meta-Analysis of Healthy Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- The efficacy of stress reappraisal interventions on stress responsivity: A meta-analysis and systematic review of existing evidence.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
- The effect of a stress mindset intervention on academic motivation among junior high school students.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Trial
- Examining the Impact of Acute Exercise and Arousal Reappraisal on Stressor-Evoked Psychological and Cardiovascular Responses.Psychophysiology · 2026Trial
- A randomized controlled trial evaluating stress arousal reappraisal and worked example effects on psychophysiological responses during breaking bad news.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Experiences of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients in a Virtual Yoga Program: Qualitative Findings from a Clinical Trial.Digestive diseases and sciences · 2024Trial
- Neurophysiological markers of emotion regulation predict efficacy of entrepreneurship education.Scientific reports · 2023Trial
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- The Limits of Cognitive Reappraisal: Changing Pain Valence, but not Persistence, during a Resistance Exercise Task.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Trial
- Efficacy of a Web-based, crowdsourced peer-to-peer cognitive reappraisal platform for depression: randomized controlled trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2015Trial
- Advancing Stroke Recovery Through Operant Conditioning of Corticomuscular Coherence.Restorative neurology and neuroscience · 2026Review
- Stress Appraisal, Stress Mindset, and Perceived Pain During a Cold Pressor Test.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2026Article
- Can we Mitigate the Impacts of Test Anxiety Through Reappraisal Interventions? A Replication Study in Science Courses Across Multiple Institution Types in the United States.CBE life sciences education · 2026Article
- Teachers' acute cardiovascular response to observed classroom disruptions and resulting chronic endocrine stress. Analysis of dynamic effects with global assessments for state space grids.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Action control in emotion regulation: when reappraisal may carry hidden costs.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Recalibrating stress regulation through mindfulness: a framework for adapting interventions for ACE-affected populations.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Associations among hair cortisol-to-DHEA ratio, psychological capital, harsh parenting, and internalizing problems in adolescence.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Socioeconomic status, prefrontal cortical volume, and cardiometabolic risk in early adolescence.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Article
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Abstract
Researchers have theorized that changing the way we think about our bodily responses can improve our physiological and cognitive reactions to stressful events. However, the underlying processes through which mental states improve downstream outcomes are not well understood. To this end, we examined whether reappraising stress-induced arousal could improve cardiovascular outcomes and decrease attentional bias for emotionally negative information. Participants were randomly assigned to either a reappraisal condition in which they were instructed to think about their physiological arousal during a stressful task as functional and adaptive, or to 1 of 2 control conditions: attention reorientation and no instructions. Relative to controls, participants instructed to reappraise their arousal exhibited more adaptive cardiovascular stress responses-increased cardiac efficiency and lower vascular resistance-and decreased attentional bias. Thus, reappraising arousal shows physiological and cognitive benefits. Implications for health and potential clinical applications are discussed.
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