The present thesis on “Effects of stress-related psychosocial factors on physiological outcomes” aims to take a closer look at the causal influence of different psychosocial stressors (i.e., childhood adversity, social exclusion, low subjective social status) on physiological outcomes (i.e., pain sensitivity, cardiovascular processes) that might be involved in the pathogenesis of disease. It consists of three research articles reporting one cross-sectional and two experimental studies.
