TAP reading note: An introductory guide to conducting the Trier Social Stress Test
Explains how variations in TSST timing, sampling, glucose administration, rooms and evaluative panels can affect cortisol responses. Provides a step-by-step protocol.
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What the study found
Explains how variations in TSST timing, sampling, glucose administration, rooms and evaluative panels can affect cortisol responses. Provides a step-by-step protocol.
Scope & limitations
A guide to human TSST experiments, rather than a new pooled recovery sample.
Protocol consistency improves interpretability but does not make a cortisol trajectory a measure of all aspects of recovery.
Population & sample
A guide to human TSST experiments, rather than a new pooled recovery sample.
Exposure or intervention
Preparation, social-evaluative task and biological sampling procedures.
Outcomes
Methodological choices affecting the stress response, especially salivary cortisol.
Time frame
Published in 2019; timing is a protocol choice, not a universal recovery deadline.
Research funding
Not yet verified against the full text.
Research conflicts of interest
Not yet verified against the full text.
Reading scope
PubMed bibliographic record and abstract. This note covers the question and reported findings; detailed methods, supplements and complete declarations were not assessed.
References
Publication record
TAP-RDN-0088 · v1.0 · English
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