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    "title": "TAP reading note: Acute stressors and cortisol responses: a theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research",
    "description": "Laboratory stressors do not elicit uniform cortisol responses. Social-evaluative threat combined with uncontrollability was associated with stronger responses. Pooled effects were d=.52 (95% CI .38–.66) for uncontrollable tasks and d=.16 (.03–.29) for controllable tasks, helping explain variation between studies.",
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      "id": "dickerson-2004",
      "title": "Acute stressors and cortisol responses: a theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research",
      "authors": "Dickerson SS · Kemeny ME",
      "journal": "Psychological Bulletin",
      "year": "2004",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.130.3.355",
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        "id": "dickerson-2004",
        "title": "Acute stressors and cortisol responses: a theoretical integration and synthesis of laboratory research",
        "authors": "Dickerson SS · Kemeny ME",
        "journal": "Psychological Bulletin",
        "year": "2004",
        "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-2909.130.3.355",
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          "Laboratory stressors do not elicit uniform cortisol responses. Social-evaluative threat combined with uncontrollability was associated with stronger responses. Pooled effects were d=.52 (95% CI .38–.66) for uncontrollable tasks and d=.16 (.03–.29) for controllable tasks, helping explain variation between studies."
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          "208 experiments in 187 reports, involving 6,153 healthy adults and psychological stress tasks lasting no more than one hour.",
          "Task characteristics overlap, so subgroup differences are not equivalent to randomized causal comparisons. Physical stressors, children and clinical populations were excluded; first laboratory exposure also limits everyday application. Peak response, total response and post-task recovery are distinct outcomes."
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          "208 experiments in 187 reports, involving 6,153 healthy adults and psychological stress tasks lasting no more than one hour."
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          "Acute laboratory psychological stress, comparing controllability, social evaluation and other task features."
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