“…There is now substantial evidence that acute psychological stress perturbs the cardiovascular system~Obrist, 1981;Turner, 1994;Turner, Sherwood, & Light, 1992!. Increases in cardiovascular activity that are excessive, relative to concurrent levels of energy expenditure, have been observed in response to both naturalistic~Blix, Stromme, & Ursin, 1974;Stromme, Wikeby, Blix, &Ursin, 1978! andlaboratory~Carroll, Harris, &Cross, 1991;Sherwood, Allen, Obrist, & Langar, 1986;Turner & Carroll, 1985;Turner, Carroll, & Courtney, 1983!…”