Can decision-making skills affect responses to psychological stress in healthy women?

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1912-1921

  Santos Ruiz, Ana ^a   Garcia Rios, M Carmen ^a   Fernandez Sanchez, José Carlos ^b   Perez Garcia, Miguel ^a   Muñoz García, Miguel Angel ^a   Peralta Ramirez, Maria Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Decision making; Stress; TSST; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IOWA GAMBLING TASK; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC SPEAKING; SALIVA LEVEL; SAMPLE SIZE; SKILL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84869878575     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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