Acute stress participants more often, and more vigorously, exerted physical effort to avoid threat-of-shock, especially when offers were highly "uneconomical" (i.e., when effort cost level clearly outweighed the threat-of-shock level). (4/6)

The acute stress manipulation also seemed to have successfully increased physiological and subjective stress. (3/6)

We developed a task in which people could choose to exert effort (grip force) to avoid a chance of experiencing an aversive electroshock. Participants were able to trade off the level of physical effort against the likelihood of shock when deciding if they should exert effort. (2/6)