Romantic partner embraces reduce cortisol release after acute stress induction in women but not in men

• Gesa Berretz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Chantal Cebula,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Blanca Maria Wortelmann,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Panagiota Papadopoulou,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Oliver T. Wolf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Sebastian Ocklenburg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Department of Psychology, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, ICAN Institute for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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• Julian Packheiser

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: j.packheiser@nin.knaw.nl

  Affiliations Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Biopsychology, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, Social Brain Lab, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9805-6755

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