An introductory guide to conducting the Trier Social Stress Test
Labuschagne I, Grace C, Rendell P, Terrett G, Heinrichs M
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2019
What the research tells us
Explains how variations in TSST timing, sampling, glucose administration, rooms and evaluative panels can affect cortisol responses. Provides a step-by-step protocol.
Scope & interpretation
Protocol consistency improves interpretability but does not make a cortisol trajectory a measure of all aspects of recovery.
Study at a glance
- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- A guide to human TSST experiments, rather than a new pooled recovery sample.
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- 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.
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