Halko, Marja-Liisa; Saaksvuori, Lauri - 2015
. We find that basal heart rate variability, a proxy for chronic stress, and acute competition-induced changes in heart … rate variability predict self-selection into competition. Moreover, we observe that basal heart rate variability predicts … self-selection into competition for women, but not for men. Overall, we find tentative evidence for gender differences in …