Linking hair cortisol and life stress: The role of stress reactivity and habituation.

Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026 · PMC12998516 · PMID 41365018

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Association of hair cortisol with stress reactivity and habituation (hypothesis 2) The correlation of HCC with individual cortisol reactivity, as derived from the first TSST ( M = 0.133 [Δ max log(nmol/l)], SD = 0.409) (H2a), approached significance: ρ = .21, p = .078 (see Fig. 3B ).

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