Table 2.

Stress response in the stress and control group.

	Stress	Control	F	p
Age (years)	21 (0.5)	22 (0.7)	0.61	0.44
Handedness	17 (R)	15 (R)
BDI-II scores	31.4 (1.8)	30.8 (1.9)	0.20	0.83
Baseline Measures:
PANAS positive	31.01 (1.73)	30.95 (2.02)	0.02	0.90
PANAS negative	15.54 (0.94)	18.35 (1.37)	1.77	0.20
Stress Response:
Cortisol AUCi levels (z scores)	27.41 (5.96)	−1.30 (1.43)	20.51	<0.001***
Amylase AUCi levels (z scores)	17.23 (4.14)	6.23 (2.62)	5.18	0.03*
Delta-peak VAS	3.40 (0.51)	0.10 (0.13)	37.11	<0.001***

Levels of significance: 0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1.