Welcome to our Lab

Stress and Emotions Lab researches how physiological arousal and stress affect humans’ emotions, cognition and behaviour. Our aim is to understand more about the causal link between everyday (sometimes stressful) events, subclinical mental symptoms and perceptual phenomena. How do we do this?

Our methods

We use experimental methods such as experience sampling procedures, psychophysiological and psychoneuroendocrinal measurements in laboratory and real-life settings. Sounds exciting? Take a look at our past and current projects!

Some of our projects

Media-induced stress recovery - our active project exploring how physiological arousal affects the recovery from cognitive fatigue. Arousal and tactile sensitivity - we investigated how the manipulation of arousal affects tactile sensitivity.