The 'Trier Social Stress Test'--a tool for investigating psychobiological stress responses in a laboratory setting
Kirschbaum C, Pirke KM, Hellhammer DH
Neuropsychobiology · 1993
What the research tells us
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 & interpretation
Response magnitude depends on participants and procedures. A successful stress induction does not establish when all systems recover.
Study at a glance
- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- Human laboratory participants in the original TSST report.
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- Social evaluation with speech and mental arithmetic.
- OUTCOMES
- Psychological and physiological stress responses, including endocrine measures.
- TIME FRAME
- Acute laboratory task; published in 1993.
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