TAP reading note: The 'Trier Social Stress Test'--a tool for investigating psychobiological stress responses in a laboratory setting
Introduced the Trier Social Stress Test, combining anticipation, public speaking and arithmetic before an evaluative panel to elicit psychobiological stress responses. It defines a laboratory challenge, not a universal recovery test.
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What the study found
Introduced the Trier Social Stress Test, combining anticipation, public speaking and arithmetic before an evaluative panel to elicit psychobiological stress responses. It defines a laboratory challenge, not a universal recovery test.
Scope & limitations
Human laboratory participants in the original TSST report.
Response magnitude depends on participants and procedures. A successful stress induction does not establish when all systems recover.
Population & sample
Human laboratory participants in the original TSST report.
Exposure or intervention
Social evaluation with speech and mental arithmetic.
Outcomes
Psychological and physiological stress responses, including endocrine measures.
Time frame
Acute laboratory task; published in 1993.
Research funding
Not yet verified against the full text.
Research conflicts of interest
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Reading scope
PubMed bibliographic record and abstract. This note covers the question and reported findings; detailed methods, supplements and complete declarations were not assessed.
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