“…Psychobiologists have documented rapid elevations in sAA following a wide array of acute cognitive, physical, emotional and psychosocial challenges in laboratory contexts (Doane and Van Lenten, ; Nater and Rohleder, ; Nater et al, ; Petrakova et al, ; Schumacher et al, ; Strahler et al, ). Other researchers have evaluated sAA responses to chronic stress or to shifting socioecological contexts in everyday life (Adam et al, ; Lynn et al, ; O'Donnell et al, ; Schumacher et al, ; Thoma et al, ; Vigil et al, ; Wolf et al, ). There is no consistent evidence that average sAA activity functions well as a summative marker of chronic stress.…”