“…Cardiovascular emotional dampening is a psychophysiological phenomenon wherein sustained increases in resting blood pressure have seemed to co-occur with (a) a restricted capacity to experience emotion, whether evoked explicitly or implicitly (Delgado et al, 2014, Loveless et al, 2018, McCubbin et al, 2011, 2014, Pury et al, 2004, Shukla et al, 2019, 2020), (b) reduced sensitivity to acute physical pain and interoceptive cuing (Saccò et al, 2013, Yoris et al, 2020), (c) reduced sensitivity to emotional pain (Inagaki et al, 2018), and (d) an increased propensity to engage in appetitive as well as risky behavior (Loveless et al, 2018, McCubbin et al, 2018, 2020). While researchers have studied this phenomenon across a variety of adult-aged samples, they and have not consistently observed any apparent moderating influences of health status, sex, age, socioeconomic status, or cultural background.…”