Mindsets Do Not Seem That Easy to Change, but Cardiac Health Is Affected By What We Think

We used stress mindset intervention videos to test the association between stress mindset and challenge-threat cardiac responses in various tasks (N=189). We observed correlations in challenge-threat appraisals and stress mindset (β = 0.286, p = 0.001), as well as heart rate variability (β = 0.146, p = 0.005).