Enhanced emotional empathy after psychosocial stress in young healthy men

Stress

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 631-637

  Wolf, Oliver T ^a   Schulte, Judith M ^a   Drimalla, Hanna ^b   Hamacher Dang, Tanja C ^b   Knoch, Daria ^c   Dziobek, Isabel ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affect; cognitive empathy; cortisol; emotional empathy; stress

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMYLASE SALIVA ISOENZYME; HYDROCORTISONE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIFACETED EMPATHY TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SOCIAL STRESS; TRIER SOCIAL STRESS TEST; CHEMISTRY; EMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SALIVA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; SALIVA; SALIVARY ALPHA-AMYLASES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947047477     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2015.1078787     Document Type: Article

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