Journal of personality and social psychology
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The effects of social context and defensiveness on the physiological responses of repressive copers.
In previous research (T. L. Newton & R. ⋯ The experimental social context was related to physiological reactivity and self-reported affect but did not moderate reactivity among repressive copers. Additionally, reactivity among repressive copers was not attributable to high defensiveness alone. Consistent with a theory of emotional inhibition, nonspecific skin conductance responses, but not heart rate, discriminated between repressors and nonrepressors.