NCT02848014

The Effects of Interventions Aiming at Optimizing Expectations and Inducing Positive Emotions After an Acute Stressor

The Effects of Interventions Aiming at Optimizing Expectations and Inducing Positive Emotions After an Acute Stressor on Subjective and Objective Stress Paramaters

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 74 (actual)
• Sponsor: Philipps University Marburg · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine whether a short psychological intervention aiming at optimizing expectations is able to foster positive emotions and whether an intervention inducing positive emotions is able improve participants' expectations. Furthermore, the investigators will examine whether both interventions are effective in buffering the stress response after an acute stressor in a healthy sample compared to a control condition.

Conditions

• Healthy Participants

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Writing task

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-07-01
• Primary completion: 2016-11-01
• Completion: 2016-11-30
• First posted: 2016-07-28
• Last updated: 2017-04-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany