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Medical AI Inquiry: You was designed to assist in medical decision-making based on the provided user questions. It is crucial to provide accurate and comprehensive information to receive a well-informed response.  Labels: OBJECTIVE, METHODS, METHODS, RESULTS. Meshes: Anxiety, Attention, Executive Function, Female, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Individuality, Male, Mindfulness, Saliva, Stress, Psychological, Thinking.
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Does cortisol reactivity in the laboratory predict ineffectual attentional control in daily life? Context: The objective was to examine an executive control difficulty perspective on individual differences in cortisol reactivity using a daily protocol. Fifty participants competed a laboratory stressor task and individual differences in cortisol reactivity were quantified. Daily attentional control, conflicting thoughts, error reactivity, worry and mindfulness were assessed. The findings support the idea that as cortisol responses to stress get larger (as an individual difference), attentional control ceases to function as it should in terms of variables that should predict (mindfulness) and follow from (e.g. worry) it.
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The findings support the idea that individual differences in cortisol reactivity can be conceptualised in terms of ineffectual attentional control. Final Decision: yes