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

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Frisch, Johanna U ^a   Häusser, Jan A ^a   Mojzisch, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HILDESHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortisol; Social behavior; Social cognition; Social support; Social evaluative threat; Trier Social Stress Test

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926454204     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00014     Document Type: Review

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