Does reappraisal aid cardiovascular habituation to stress?
Reappraisal is an emotion regulation strategy that involves reframing an emotion-eliciting or stress-eliciting situation in a different way in order to change the downstream emotional response. Within the stress optimization literature, participants are instructed to use reappraisal to change their perceptions of stress. For example, they are told to view stress as something positive and adaptive, and to see signs of stress (such as a beating heart and sweaty palms) as an ind
