The Trier Social Stress Test as a paradigm to study how people respond to threat in social interactions

In our lives, we face countless situations in which we are observed and evaluated by our social interaction partners. Social-evaluative threat is frequently associated with strong neurophysiological stress reactions, in particular, an increase in cortisol levels. Yet, social variables do not only ca...

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Main Authors: Johanna Ute Frisch, Jan A. Häusser, Andreas eMojzisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00014/full