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A Heart and A Mind: Self-Distancing Facilitates the Association Between Heart Rate Variability, and Wise Reasoning – HeartMath Institute

Cardiac vagal tone (indexed via resting heart rate variability [HRV]) has been previously associated with superior executive functioning. Is HRV related to wiser reasoning and less biased judgments? Here we hypothesize that this will be the case when adopting a self-distanced (as opposed to a self-immersed) perspective, with self-distancing enabling individuals with higher HRV to…

Where Published: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, April 9, 2016, Volume 10, Article 68.

Authors: Igor Grossmann, Baljinder K. Sahdra, and Joseph Ciarrochi

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