Background: The dominant perspective in society is that stress has negative consequences,
and not surprisingly, the vast majority of interventions for coping with stress focus on …

Regulating affective responses to acute stress has the potential to improve health,
performance, and well-being outcomes. Using the biopsychosocial (BPS) model of …

The field experiment presented here applied a stress regulation technique to optimize
affective and neuroendocrine responses and improve academic and psychological …

Abstract Mathematics anxiety is a major impediment to achievement in mathematics and
science academic domains. Although important steps have been made in understanding the …

This chapter reviews literature having to do with the social-behavioral neuroendocrinology
of competition, dominance, and status hierarchies in humans. After defining these terms …

Power, the capacity to influence others while resisting their attempts at influence, has
implications for a wide variety of individual‐and relationship‐level outcomes. One potential …

When attempting to resolve relationship problems, individuals in close relationships
sometimes challenge their partners with statements that oppose their partners' point of view …

It is generally acknowledged that hormones are implicated in socioemotional behavior, yet
little is known about the role of hormones in the context of emotion regulation. The aims of …

The present study contributes to a growing line of research exploring the associations
between physiology and communication behavior. Specifically, this study investigated the …

This study investigated the effects of psychosocial stress on hormonal responses to a social
interaction with an opposite-sex individual to test the hypothesis that stress may interfere …