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February 19, 2026Anxiety Stress & Coping1 citationsOpen Access

Reappraising stress-related arousal enhances prosocial behavior in individuals perceiving the intervention as effective

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LOLaura R. OswaldJJJeremy P. JamiesonFDFabian Dvorak

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how cognitive stress appraisals influence behavioral responses to stress and enhance prosocial behavior.
  • Conducted assessments to measure cognitive stress appraisals.
  • Evaluated behavioral responses to stress using various tasks.
  • Analyzed the relationship between perceived intervention effectiveness and prosocial behavior.
  • Individuals who perceived the cognitive stress appraisals as effective showed higher prosocial behaviors.
  • Cognitive appraisals significantly modulated behavioral responses to stress.

Abstract

Our findings suggest that cognitive stress appraisals modulate behavioral stress effects, and appraisals can be leveraged to help improve stress-related response and outcomes.

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Oswald et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6996a77aecb39a600b3ed1b4https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2026.2615347
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