Contagious Anxiety: Anxious European Americans Can Transmit Their Physiological Reactivity to African Americans
Contagious Anxiety: Anxious European Americans Can Transmit Their Physiological Reactivity to African Americans
Tessa V. West,K. Koslov,2 Authors,W. Mendes
2017 · DOI: 10.1177/0956797617722551
Psychology Science · 45 Citations
TLDR
PEP scores showed that African American partners had stronger physiological linkage to European American partners who evidenced greater anxiety, which suggests greater physiological responsiveness to momentary changes in partners’ affective states when those partners were anxious.