Tight Clothes And Cortisol Study

[Luann]

Effects of pressure on the skin exerted by clothing on responses of urinary catecholamines and cortisol, heart rate and nocturnal urinary melatonin... - PubMed - NCBI

"Heart rate was significantly higher in the TC [tight clothes] group"
"the amounts of urinary excretion [adrenaline, noradrenaline, cortisol] were significantly higher when TC were worn."

 

[Elephanto]

That's so interesting, I've been wearing jogging pants and basketball shorts every day of my life since I stopped caring about nice clothes. Jeans never made sense to me, they are so restrictive. But I think that this also shows a person's resistance to stress; when I was younger it would be less bothersome to me but now I need the best comfort I can get. It could also be that nowadays I actually care about my comfort and wellbeing; people with auto-destructive tendencies and those that get their energy/motivation from stress hormones would probably not make a conscious effort to wear comfortable clothes.

 

[DaveFoster]

Self-conscious thinking is stressful; however, it could be that self-conscious people wear tight clothes, where tight clothing reinforces their psychological conditioning.

 

[Such_Saturation]

What about people who look at the tight clothes

 

[m_arch]

What about people who look at the tight clothes

Such_naughtiness

 

[Such_Saturation]

Such_naughtiness

You need to think laterally...