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Byrd-Craven J, Rankin AM. Grandmothers and Hormonal Underpinnings: Unexplored Aspects of Women's Same-Sex Relationships. ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 2022; 51:3263-3266. [PMID: 34811652 DOI: 10.1007/s10508-021-02222-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2021] [Revised: 11/05/2021] [Accepted: 11/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Jennifer Byrd-Craven
- Department of Psychology, Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis, Oklahoma State University, 116 Psychology Building, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis, Oklahoma State University, 116 Psychology Building, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA
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Variations in progesterone and estradiol across the menstrual cycle predict generosity toward socially close others. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2022; 140:105720. [PMID: 35305405 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2022.105720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2021] [Revised: 03/06/2022] [Accepted: 03/08/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The human tendency to share goods with others at personal costs declines across the perceived social distance to them, an observation termed social discounting. Cumulating evidence suggests that social preferences are influenced by the agent's neurohormonal state. Here we tested whether endogenous fluctuations in steroid hormone compositions across the menstrual cycle were associated with differences in generosity in a social discounting task. Adult healthy, normally-cycling, women made incentivized decisions between high selfish rewards for themselves and lower generous rewards for themselves but also for other individuals at variable social distances from their social environment. We determined participants' current levels of menstrual-cycle-dependent steroid hormones via salivary sampling. Results revealed that the increase in progesterone levels as well as the decrease in estradiol levels, but not changes in testosterone or cortisol, across the menstrual cycle, accounted for increased generosity specifically toward socially close others, but not toward remote strangers.
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Dinh T, Gangestad SW, Thompson ME, Tomiyama AJ, Fessler DMT, Robertson TE, Haselton MG. Endocrinological effects of social exclusion and inclusion: Experimental evidence for adaptive regulation of female fecundity. Horm Behav 2021; 130:104934. [PMID: 33476675 DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2021.104934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Revised: 12/10/2020] [Accepted: 01/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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When current conditions are probabilistically less suitable for successful reproduction than future conditions, females may prevent or delay reproduction until conditions improve. Throughout human evolution, social support was likely crucial to female reproductive success. Women may thus have evolved fertility regulation systems sensitive to cues from the social environment. However, current understanding of how psychological phenomena might affect female ovarian function is limited. In this study, we examined whether cues of reduced social support-social ostracism-impact women's hormone production. Following an in-lab group bonding task, women were randomly assigned to a social exclusion (n = 88) or social inclusion (n = 81) condition. After social exclusion, women with low background levels of social support experienced a decrease in estradiol relative to progesterone. In contrast, socially-included women with low background social support experienced an increase in estradiol relative to progesterone. Hormonal changes in both conditions occurred specifically when women were in their mid-to-late follicular phase, when baseline estradiol is high and progesterone is low. Follow-up analyses revealed that these changes were primarily driven by changes in progesterone, consistent with existing evidence for disruption of ovarian function following adrenal release of follicular-phase progesterone. Results offer support for a potential mechanism by which fecundity could respond adaptively to the loss or lack of social support.
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- Tran Dinh
- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA; Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Bedari Kindness Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Bedari Kindness Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Center for Behavior, Evolution, & Culture, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Communication, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Rankin AM, Garza R, Byrd-Craven J. The endocrinology of female friendships: Cortisol and progesterone attunement after separation. Biol Psychol 2021; 161:108059. [PMID: 33652041 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2020] [Revised: 02/24/2021] [Accepted: 02/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Friendships constitute important relationships, and often function to reduce stress, but have been under-studied. In mother-child dyads, infants coordinate their stress response with their caregivers without experiencing the stressor themselves. The current study used a modified version of the Trier Social Stress Test to examine whether i) friends are physiologically attuned (i.e., cortisol and progesterone); ii) attunement differs as a function of social acceptance or rejection external to the dyad; and, iii) friends can 'catch' a stress response only through non-verbal cues. Friends showed both cortisol and progesterone attunement at the beginning of the study. Friends showed cortisol attunement across time and conditions. Friends' progesterone levels were significantly, but negatively associated across time and conditions. They did not, however, show a stress contagion as a result of one friend experiencing stress. These findings suggest that cortisol and progesterone play different roles in the attunement of stress and subsequent affiliation.
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- Ashley Marie Rankin
- Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis (OCEAN), Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 74075, United States.
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- Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis (OCEAN), Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 74075, United States
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- Oklahoma Center for Evolutionary Analysis (OCEAN), Department of Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 74075, United States
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Schaan VK, Schulz A, Bernstein M, Schächinger H, Vögele C. Effects of rejection intensity and rejection sensitivity on social approach behavior in women. PLoS One 2020; 15:e0227799. [PMID: 31951627 PMCID: PMC6968853 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0227799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2019] [Accepted: 12/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Objective Perceived rejection plays an important role for mental health and social integration. This study investigated the impact of rejection intensity and rejection sensitivity on social approach behavior. Method 121 female participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions differing in the degree of induced rejection (inclusion, medium rejection, severe rejection). Thereafter they were asked to interact with an unknown person during a touch-based cooperative task. Results Participants high in rejection sensitivity sought significantly less physical contact than participants low in rejection sensitivity. Individuals in the medium rejection condition touched their partners more often than those in the included condition, while no difference between included and severely rejected participants could be observed. Conclusions The results suggest that the intensity of rejection matters with regard to coping. While participants in the medium intensity rejection condition aimed to ‘repair’ their social self by seeking increased contact with others, severely rejected participants did not adapt their behavior compared to included participants. Implications for therapy are discussed.
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- Violetta K. Schaan
- Institute for Health and Behaviour, Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
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- Institute for Health and Behaviour, Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
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- Department of Psychology and Social Sciences, Penn State Abington, Abington, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Biological and Clinical Psychology, University of Trier, Trier, Germany
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- Institute for Health and Behaviour, Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
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Duffy KA, Green PA, Chartrand TL. Mimicry and Modeling of Health(-Risk) Behaviors: How Others Impact Our Health(-Risk) Behaviors Without Our Awareness. JOURNAL OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s10919-019-00318-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Maeda S, Ogishima H, Shimada H. Acute cortisol response to a psychosocial stressor is associated with heartbeat perception. Physiol Behav 2019; 207:132-138. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.05.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2019] [Revised: 04/10/2019] [Accepted: 05/10/2019] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Forney KJ, Keel PK, O'Connor S, Sisk C, Burt SA, Klump KL. Interaction of hormonal and social environments in understanding body image concerns in adolescent girls. J Psychiatr Res 2019; 109:178-184. [PMID: 30553150 PMCID: PMC6317862 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2018.12.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2018] [Revised: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 12/06/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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During adolescence, peer approval becomes increasingly important and may be perceived as contingent upon appearance in girls. Concurrently, girls experience hormonal changes, including an increase in progesterone. Progesterone has been implicated in affiliative behavior but inconsistently associated with body image concerns. The current study sought to examine whether progesterone may moderate the association between perceived social pressures to conform to the thin ideal and body image concerns. Secondary analyses were conducted in cross-sectional data from 813 girls in early puberty and beyond (ages 8-16) who completed assessments of the peer environment, body image concerns, and progesterone. Models for mediation and moderation were examined with BMI, age, and menarcheal status as covariates. Belief that popularity was linked to appearance and the experience of weight-related teasing were both positively associated with greater body image concerns, but neither was associated with progesterone once adjusting for covariates. Progesterone significantly interacted with perceived social pressures in predicting body image concerns. At higher progesterone levels, appearance-popularity beliefs and weight-related teasing were more strongly related to body image concerns than they were at lower progesterone levels. Findings support a moderating role for progesterone in the link between social pressures and body image concerns in girls. This study adds to a growing literature examining how girls' hormonal environments may modulate responses to their social environments. Longitudinal and experimental work is needed to understand temporal relations and mechanisms behind these associations.
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- K Jean Forney
- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, 1107 W Call St, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Florida State University, 1107 W Call St, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 316 Physics Rd #262, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, 293 Farm Ln, East Lansing, MI, 48825, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 316 Physics Rd #262, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, 316 Physics Rd #262, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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Duffy KA, Luber B, Adcock RA, Chartrand TL. Enhancing activation in the right temporoparietal junction using theta-burst stimulation: Disambiguating between two hypotheses of top-down control of behavioral mimicry. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0211279. [PMID: 30682141 PMCID: PMC6347431 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0211279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2018] [Accepted: 01/10/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Whereas previous research has focused on the role of the rTPJ when consciously inhibiting mimicry, we test the role of the rTPJ on mimicry within a social interaction, during which mimicking occurs nonconsciously. We wanted to determine whether higher rTPJ activation always inhibits the tendency to imitate (regardless of the context) or whether it facilitates mimicry during social interactions (when mimicking is an adaptive response). Participants received either active or sham intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS: a type of stimulation that increases cortical activation) to the rTPJ. Next, we measured how much participants mimicked the hair and face touching of another person. Participants in the active stimulation condition engaged in significantly less mimicry than those in the sham stimulation condition. This finding suggests that even in a context in which mimicking is adaptive, rTPJ inhibits mimicry rather than facilitating it, supporting the hypothesis that rTPJ enhances representations of self over other regardless of the goals within a given context.
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- Korrina A. Duffy
- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Radke S, Seidel EM, Boubela RN, Thaler H, Metzler H, Kryspin-Exner I, Moser E, Habel U, Derntl B. Immediate and delayed neuroendocrine responses to social exclusion in males and females. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2018; 93:56-64. [PMID: 29702443 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2017] [Revised: 04/09/2018] [Accepted: 04/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Social exclusion is a complex phenomenon, with wide-ranging immediate and delayed effects on well-being, hormone levels, brain activation and motivational behavior. Building upon previous work, the current fMRI study investigated affective, endocrine and neural responses to social exclusion in a more naturalistic Cyberball task in 40 males and 40 females. As expected, social exclusion elicited well-documented affective and neural responses, i.e., increased anger and distress, as well as increased exclusion-related activation of the anterior insula, the posterior-medial frontal cortex and the orbitofrontal cortex. Cortisol and testosterone decreased over the course of the experiment, whereas progesterone showed no changes. Hormone levels were not correlated with subjective affect, but they were related to exclusion-induced neural responses. Exclusion-related activation in frontal areas was associated with decreases in cortisol and increases in testosterone until recovery. Given that results were largely independent of sex, the current findings have important implications regarding between-sex vs. within-sex variations and the conceptualization of state vs. trait neuroendocrine functions in social neuroscience.
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- S Radke
- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany; Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) - BRAIN Institute 1, Brain Structure-Function Relationships: Decoding the Human Brain at Systemic Levels, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany.
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- Department of Applied Psychology: Health, Development, Enhancement and Intervention, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria; Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria
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- MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Lazarettgasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Centre for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria; Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Kraepelinstraße 2-10, 80804 Munich, Germany
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- Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria; Laboratoire de neurosciences cognitives, Département d'études cognitives, École normale supérieure, INSERM, PSL Research University, 29 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Applied Psychology: Health, Development, Enhancement and Intervention, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria
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- MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Lazarettgasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria; Centre for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, RWTH Aachen University, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany; Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA) - BRAIN Institute 1, Brain Structure-Function Relationships: Decoding the Human Brain at Systemic Levels, Pauwelsstr. 30, 52074 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Calwerstr. 14, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; Werner Reichardt Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Otfried-Müller-Str. 25, 72076 Tübingen, Germany; LEAD Graduate School, University of Tübingen, Gartenstr. 29, 72074 Tübingen,Germany
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Maeda S, Sato T, Shimada H, Tsumura H. Post-event Processing Predicts Impaired Cortisol Recovery Following Social Stressor: The Moderating Role of Social Anxiety. Front Psychol 2017; 8:1919. [PMID: 29163296 PMCID: PMC5671589 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01919] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/16/2017] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
Abstract
There is growing evidence that individuals with social anxiety show impaired cortisol recovery after experiencing social evaluative stressors. Yet, little is known regarding the cognitive processes underlying such impaired cortisol recovery. The present study examined the effect of post-event processing (PEP), referred to as repetitive thinking about social situations, on cortisol recovery following a social stressor. Forty-two non-clinical university students (23 women, 19 men, mean age = 22.0 ± 2.0 years) completed the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), followed by a thought sampling procedure which assessed the frequency of PEP reflecting the TSST. A growth curve model showed PEP and social anxiety interactively predicted cortisol recovery. In particular, PEP predicted impaired cortisol recovery in those with low levels of social anxiety but not in those with high levels of social anxiety, which contradicted the initial hypothesis. These findings suggest that PEP is differentially associated with cortisol recovery depending on levels of social anxiety. The possible mechanisms underlying these findings were discussed in terms of protective inhibition framework.
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- Shunta Maeda
- Graduate School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Tokorozawa, Japan.,Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan
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- Institute of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
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- Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Shimane University, Izumo, Japan
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