“…This model conforms to classical notions of experimental control, and promotes values such as task homogeneity, internal consistency, and testretest reliability to attain conventional standards of psychometric reliability (Kamarck, 1992;Manuck, Kasprowicz , Monroe, Larkin, & Kaplan, 1989). The use of homogeneous tasks is predicated on sympathetic hyperresponsivity being the key process in linking reactivity with CV disease, a commonly held view (Rozanski, Blumenthal, & Kaplan, 1999).…”