There Is No News Like Bad News: Women Are More Remembering and Stress Reactive after Reading Real Negative News than Men

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Marin, Marie France ^a,b   Morin Major, Julie Katia ^a   Schramek, Tania E ^a   Beaupré, Annick ^a   Perna, Andrea ^a   Juster, Robert Paul ^a,c   Lupien, Sonia J ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE FERNAND SEGUIN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; READING; RECALL; SALIVA LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TRIER SOCIAL STRESS TEST;

FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; READING; SALIVA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84867352629     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047189     Document Type: Article

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