Manipulating Levels of Socially Evaluative Threat and the Impact on Anticipatory Stress Reactivity.

ABSTRACT: Previous work suggests that relative increases in socially evaluative threat modulate the psychobiological stress response. However, few studies have compared stressors which manipulate the level of socially evaluative threat to which the participant is exposed. Here we present two studies. In the first, we assessed the integrity of an ecologically valid, laboratory stressor (direct socially evaluated multitasking) and its effects on acute psychobiological reactivity and ability to evoke an anticipatory response prior to participation. Specifically, we assessed whether the expectation and experience of direct social evaluation (multitasking while standing and facing an evaluator) evokes greater reactivity than indirect evaluation (over-the-shoulder evaluation). In the second study, we soug

SUBMITTER: Craw OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7937816 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature