Cortisol Reactivity to Psychosocial Stress and Attentional Disengagement from Threat Stimuli

Abstract

The present study examined whether or not the elevation of cortisol elicited in response to an acute psychosocial stress relates to a difficulty in disengaging attention from threat stimuli. For this purpose, we measured attentional bias for angry faces using a spatial cueing task in which the duration of the cue presentation was relatively long (1,000 ms). The participants engaged in the acute psychosocial stress task, and then the 34 1 4151, 2016