Cytokine responses andmath performance: The role of stereotype threat and anxiety reappraisals
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• Female college students take a math exam described as gender-fair or gender-biased. • In one condition, participants directed to reappraise physiological arousal. • Performance on math exam and post-exam levels of the cytokine IL-6 were measured. • Reappraisal of physiological arousal buffers inflammatory responses to exam across conditions. • Reappraisal of arousal especially effective buffer of inflammatory responses in stereotype threat condition.
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