Experience, cortisol reactivity, and the coordination of emotional responses to skydiving

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Meyer, Vanessa J ^a,b   Lee, Yoojin ^a   Böttger, Christian ^c,d   Leonbacher, Uwe ^c,d   Allison, Amber L ^d   Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cortisol; Emotion; Habituation; HPA axis; Skydiving

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HAPPINESS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; JUMPING; LIFE THREAT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SKYDIVING; SPORT;

EID: 84933678498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00138     Document Type: Article

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