U.S., July 15 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07702747) titled 'The Association Between the Stress Hormone Cortisol and Decision-making' on July 01.
Brief Summary: The goal of this study is to learn how acute psychosocial stress influences decision-making in healthy young adults. It will also examine whether cortisol reactivity, a biological stress response, changes the influence of physiological emotional signals on decision-making (i.e., the gut feeling indicating risks).
The main questions it aims to answer are:
1. Does exposure to an acute psychosocial stressor affect the development of physiological emotional signals during decision-making?
2. Does cortisol reactivity moderate the relati...