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Cortisol awakening response
The marked rise in cortisol over roughly the first 30 to 45 minutes after waking in the morning, usually measured from saliva samples that participants collect at home. It has been related to a wide range of psychosocial and health variables, but its measurement depends critically on sampling exactly on schedule from the moment of waking. Expert consensus guidelines call for objective checks of sampling times, because small delays can distort the estimate and produce spurious associations. Allostasis and allostatic load, the cognitive control of emotion, the stress-buffering effects of social support and the use of music for mood regulation explain what a night of collective movement does for the body, and what it cannot change. Affective computing promises to infer emotion as if it were a system metric. The evidence on facial movements and autonomic signals, together with questions of consent, explains why every metric in this artifact is an artistic value. The works the definition rests on, with the level of evidence each was appraised at. (2016). Assessment of the cortisol awakening response: Expert consensus guidelines. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.10.010 Supports technical statements about the cortisol awakening response and the dependence of its measurement on accurate, verified sampling times. Expert consensus, not a test of what the response indicates.Where the site uses it
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