Table 1.
Participants’ characteristics per experimental conditions.
Fig 1.
Left: high-stress; right: low-stress condition.
Fig 2.
Experimental Procedure of the VST.
Key measurement time points inside and outside VR.
Table 2.
Cortisol Responder Rate (in %) per experimental condition.
Fig 3.
On the left, maximal stress ratings per stress condition are displayed, on the right, externalization ratings per audio condition.
Fig 4.
On the left: measured with the subscale of the MPS; on the right: with rating scales within the VR scene.
Fig 5.
Social Presence rating as a function of stress and audio manipulation at two different measurement time points.
Error bars indicate the standard error.
Fig 6.
Log-transformed mean salivary cortisol (nmol/l) in response to the VST as a function of audio and stress.
Error bars indicate the standard error.
Fig 7.
Mean heart rate in beats per minute in response to the VST as a function of stress and audio manipulation.
Error bars indicate the standard error.
Fig 8.
Mean stress rating as a function of stress and audio manipulation at five different measurement time points.
Error bars indicate the standard error.
Fig 9.
Social presence rating (on the left) and subscale of the MPS (right) as a function of audio and social anxiety (SPIN median split).
Table 3.
Means of outcome variables in individual and generic HRIRs audio conditions and the Bayes factor for an independent samples t-test of H0.