Cutting Stress Off at the Pass: Reducing Vigilance and Responsiveness to Social Threat by Manipulating Attention

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 651-666

  Dandeneau, Stéphane D ^a   Baldwin, Mark W ^a   Baccus, Jodene R ^a   Sakellaropoulo, Maya ^a   Pruessner, Jens C ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cortisol; rejection; selective attention; self esteem; social stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; BLOOD; BRAIN; CONTROL; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; BRAIN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 34748891439     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.93.4.651     Document Type: Article

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