TAP reading note: The Trier Social Stress Test: Principles and practice
Explains TSST principles, implementation and variants, including group, developmental and imaging adaptations. Participant characteristics and task choices change what a stress experiment can support.
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What the study found
Explains TSST principles, implementation and variants, including group, developmental and imaging adaptations. Participant characteristics and task choices change what a stress experiment can support.
Scope & limitations
Review of human TSST research across health, age and stress-related conditions.
A standard stressor does not produce a standard recovery outcome in every person. Repeated testing and context require appropriate design choices.
Population & sample
Review of human TSST research across health, age and stress-related conditions.
Exposure or intervention
Evaluated speech and arithmetic, and adapted TSST protocols.
Outcomes
Methodological principles and psychological/neurobiological stress responses.
Time frame
Online November 2016; 2017 journal issue.
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
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