Trial reportPloS one2018
Acute social and physical stress interact to influence social behavior: The role of social anxiety.
Trial report in PloS one, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.
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29 citing papers in PubMed.
- Dissociable glucocorticoid and noradrenergic effects on parochial cooperation and competition in intergroup conflict.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Trial
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- Children's altruism following acute stress: The role of autonomic nervous system activity and social support.Developmental science · 2021Trial
- The Relationship Between Perceived Stress and Social Anxiety in Junior High School Students: The Chain Mediating Role of Psychological Inflexibility and Problematic Social Media Use.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Momentary anxiety and autonomic responses during everyday social interactions among patients with depression.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Opposing roles of microglial and macrophagic C3ar1 signaling in stress-induced synaptic and behavioral changes.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Article
- The Association Between Doctor-Patient Conflict and Uncertainty Stress During Clinical Internships Among Medical Students: A Panel Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effect of insomnia on anxiety about COVID- 19 patients: the mediating role of psychological capital.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- No effects of acute stress on monetary delay discounting: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Review
- Decision-making under stress: A psychological and neurobiological integrative model.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- The neurocomputational signature of decision-making for unfair offers in females under acute psychological stress.Neurobiology of stress · 2024Article
- Insomnia and anxiety among COVID-19 patients in China: the chain mediating effect of psychological capital and self-esteem.BMC nursing · 2024Article
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- Cultural adaptation and validity evidence of the Student Nurse Stressor-15 (SNS-15) Scale for Brazil.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2024Article
- Interoceptive ability moderates the effect of physiological reactivity on social judgment.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2023Article
- Activation of cell-free mtDNA-TLR9 signaling mediates chronic stress-induced social behavior deficits.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Article
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- Evaluation of Holstein cows with different tongue-rolling frequencies: stress immunity, rumen environment and general behavioural activity.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Psychosocial stress, interpersonal sensitivity, and social withdrawal in clinical high risk for psychosis: a systematic review.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Review
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Abstract
Stress is proven to have detrimental effects on physical and mental health. Due to different tasks and study designs, the direct consequences of acute stress have been found to be wide-reaching: while some studies report prosocial effects, others report increases in antisocial behavior, still others report no effect. To control for specific effects of different stressors and to consider the role of social anxiety in stress-related social behavior, we investigated the effects of social versus physical stress on behavior in male participants possessing different levels of social anxiety. In a randomized, controlled two by two design we investigated the impact of social and physical stress on behavior in healthy young men. We found significant influences on various subjective increases in stress by physical and social stress, but no interaction effect. Cortisol was significantly increased by physical stress, and the heart rate was modulated by physical and social stress as well as their combination. Social anxiety modulated the subjective stress response but not the cortisol or heart rate response. With respect to behavior, our results show that social and physical stress interacted to modulate trust, trustworthiness, and sharing. While social stress and physical stress alone reduced prosocial behavior, a combination of the two stressor modalities could restore prosociality. Social stress alone reduced nonsocial risk behavior regardless of physical stress. Social anxiety was associated with higher subjective stress responses and higher levels of trust. As a consequence, future studies will need to investigate further various stressors and clarify their effects on social behavior in health and social anxiety disorders.
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