Open access
Oct 2026
Salivary oxytocin and testosterone in empathic stress responding: a pilot study.
Suffering the stress of others (termed empathic stress or stress contagion) may affect an individual's health and well-being. To understand the underlying hormonal processes of empathic stress, N = 108 opposite-sex dyads were tested, with one dyad partner passively observing the other undergoing a standardized psychoso...
Katja Heilmann, Martin Walter, V. Engert
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