Acute stressors and cortisol responses: a theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research.

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Summary

Motivated performance tasks elicited cortisol responses if they were uncontrollable or characterized by social-evaluative threat (task performance could be negatively judged by others), when methodological factors and other stressor characteristics were controlled for.

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review
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2004-04-29
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Keywords

Stressor, Psychology, Social stress, Hydrocortisone, Task (project management)

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