Stress in Action: Advancing the Science of Stress by Moving the Lab to Daily Life

This large grant from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) allows researchers from VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC (University Medical Centres) to collaborate intensively over the next ten years with researchers from Groningen UMCG, the University of Groningen, Erasmus MC and the University of Twente on the 'Stress-in-Action' project. The project will establish how reactions to stress in daily life arise from the interplay between predisposition, environment, time and person-specific factors, how stress in daily life can be reliably measured in a specific individual in real time, and how and when potential beneficial stress responses turn into detrimental effects on mental and physical health.