Stress affects the prediction of others’ behavior

Witt, Sarah; Seehagen, Sabine; Zmyj, Norbert

Stress affects the prediction of others’ behavior

dc.contributor.author	Witt, Sarah
dc.contributor.author	Seehagen, Sabine
dc.contributor.author	Zmyj, Norbert
dc.date.accessioned	2023-05-05T10:04:18Z
dc.date.available	2023-05-05T10:04:18Z
dc.date.issued	2023-04-13
dc.description.abstract	Predicting behavior of other people is vital for successful social interactions. We tested whether a stress-induced cortisol increase affects healthy young men’s prediction of another individual’s behavior. Forty-two participants were randomly assigned to a stress or to a control condition. Afterwards, they participated in a modified false-belief task that not only tests false-belief understanding but also the tendency to predict another person’s future behavior based on his former behavior. Subjective ratings and salivary cortisol concentrations revealed a successful stress induction. Stress did not affect participants’ attribution of false beliefs but it increased the probability to predict that a protagonist would act according to his former behavior. Recognizing that stress fosters the interpretation of others’ behavior following their former behavior and not their current goals extends previous research showing that stress fosters our own habitual behavior.	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2003/41363
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.17877/DE290R-23206
dc.language.iso	en	de
dc.relation.ispartofseries	PLOS ONE;Bd 18. 2023, Heft 4, Artikel-ID e0283782
dc.subject	Cortisol	de
dc.subject	Social cognition	de
dc.subject	Psychological stress	de
dc.subject	Prefrontal cortex	de
dc.subject	Behavior	de
dc.subject	Reasoning	de
dc.subject	Learning	de
dc.subject	Theory of mind	de
dc.subject.ddc	150
dc.subject.rswk	Hydrocortison \|	de
dc.subject.rswk	Soziale Wahrnehmung \|	de
dc.subject.rswk	Stress \|	de
dc.subject.rswk	Lernen	de
dc.title	Stress affects the prediction of others’ behavior	de
dc.type	Text	de
dc.type.publicationtype	article	de
dcterms.accessRights	open access
eldorado.secondarypublication	true	de
eldorado.secondarypublication.primarycitation	PLOS ONE. Band 18. 2023, Heft 4, Artikel-ID e0283782	de
eldorado.secondarypublication.primaryidentifier	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283782	de

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