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Acute Stress Eliminates Female Advantage in Detection of Ambiguous Negative Affect
2011
Evolutionary Psychology
The human stress response evolved to maximize an individual's probability of survival when threatened. The present study addressed whether physical danger modulates perception of an unrelated ambiguous threat and, if so, to what extent this response is sexspecific. The authors utilized a first-time tandem skydive as a stressor, which had been previously validated as producing a highly-controlled, genuinely stressful environment. In a counter-balanced within-subjects design, participants wore a
doi:10.1177/147470491100900406
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