Stigma Consciousness Modulates Cortisol Reactivity to Social Stress in Women.

@article{Doyle2018StigmaCM,
  title={Stigma Consciousness Modulates Cortisol Reactivity to Social Stress in Women.},
  author={David Matthew Doyle and Lisa A. Molix},
  journal={European journal of social psychology},
  year={2018},
  volume={48 2},
  pages={
          217-224
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:21696721}
}
Examination of whether stigma consciousness shapes cortisol responses to social stress among women in the lab revealed that women higher in stigma consciousness evidenced blunted cortisol reactivity following social stress across the study session.
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