“…A number of laboratory studies jointly assessed appraisals, affective and/or physiological stress correlates in a test situation, for instance when participants performed mental tasks or a social-evaluative speech task (e.g., Fonseca, Blascovich, & Marques, 2014;Pruessner, Gaab, Hellhammer, Lintz, Schommer, & Kirschbaum, 1997;Tomaka, Blascovich, Kibler, & Ernst, 1997). In contrast, previous research on the effects of SE in the context of real-life exams focused either on cortisol or self-reported anxiety (Campbell & Ehlert, 2012;Dickerson & Kemeny, 2004;Schönfeld et al, 2017).…”