Highlights•Acute stress can impair valuation of reward information critical to decision
making.•Acute stress influences a shift from goal-directed to habit-based decision …

Prosocial behaviour is fundamental for our social togetherness. Yet, how acute stress, a
common everyday occurrence, influences our behaviours towards one another is still …

For thousands of years, various spiritual traditions and social activists have appealed to
humans to adopt compassionate ways of living to address the suffering of life. Yet, along …

Recent behavioral investigations suggest that acute stress can increase prosocial behavior.
Here, we investigated whether increased empathy represents a potential mechanism for this …

This study applies a multilevel model approach to test the predictive effect of the theory of
planned behaviour (TPB) plus moral norm, past behaviour and crash history to account for …

Understanding the impact of stress on cognitive processes, particularly decision-making, is
crucial as it underpins behaviors essential for survival. However, research in this domain …

Stress is proven to have detrimental effects on physical and mental health. Due to different
tasks and study designs, the direct consequences of acute stress have been found to be …

Loneliness becomes more prevalent as youth transition from childhood into adolescence. A
key underlying process may be the puberty‐related increase in biological stress reactivity …

Background and objectives Face-to-face and text-based social support have been shown to
attenuate stress responses in past studies. Yet as social interactions increasingly take place …

In everyday life, moral decisions must frequently be made under acute stress. Although there
is increasing evidence that both stress and cortisol affect moral judgment and behavior as …