The Social Dimension of Stress: Experimental Manipulations of Social Support and Social Identity in the Trier Social Stress TestJohanna U. Frisch 1, Jan A. Häusser 1, Rolf van Dick 2, Andreas Mojzisch 1
1Institute of Psychology, University of Hildesheim, 2Department of Psychology and Sports Science and Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Previous research on the social dimension of stress has focused on two important variables: social identity and social support. This protocol introduces an effective experimental manipulation of these two social variables and describes their implementation in a standard stress induction paradigm (Trier Social Stress Test).
