About the Authors

Chen Tiferet-Dweck

chentife@gmail.com

Affiliations The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Department of Psychology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Michael Hensel

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Clemens Kirschbaum

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Joseph Tzelgov

Affiliations The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Department of Psychology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Alon Friedman

Affiliations The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Departments of Medical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Moti Salti

Affiliation The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CT JT AF. Performed the experiments: CT MH. Analyzed the data: CT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MH CK AF MS JT. Wrote the paper: CT MS. Free-cortisol measurements: CK.