The effects of voice content on stress reactivity: A simulation paradigm of auditory verbal hallucinations.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Psychosis is associated with increased subjective and altered endocrine and autonomic nervous system stress-reactivity. Psychosis patients often experience auditory verbal hallucinations, with negative voice content being particularly associated with distress. The present study developed a voice-simulation paradigm and investigated the effect of simulated voices with neutral and negative content on psychophysiological stress-reactivity, and the effect of mindful voice-appraisals on stress-reactivity.

Method

Eighty-four healthy participants completed the Montreal Imaging Stress Task with simultaneous presentation of one of three randomly allocated auditory stimuli conditions: negative voices, neutral voices or non-voice ambient sounds. Subjective stress-levels and

SUBMITTER: Baumeister D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9205337 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature