Personality traits measured with the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire—Revised did not show associations with basal or stimulated concentrations of Cortisol in a sample of 81 subjects. Cortisol responses to a single exposure to psychosocial stress as well as circadian salivary-free Cortisol patterns did not distinguish between subjects with high or low scores on Extraversion, Neuroticism, or Psychoticism, respectively.
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