Post-hoc pairwise comparisons showed that the cortisol condition did not differ from the placebo condition during baseline ( t ( 39) = 0.75, p Bonferroni = 1, d = 0.116, paired t -test), but exhibited higher cortisol concentrations for both time-points following the SECPT (both t ≤ −6.26, both p Bonferroni ≤ .001, both d ≤ −0.908, paired t -tests), while the last time-point still showed a trend for a difference ( t ( 39) = −2.57, p Bonferroni = .056, d = −0.342, paired t -test).
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