“…First, we examined several vagal characteristics by examining not only vagal baseline, but also reactivity to the CFT (acute vagal stimulation) and the MIST-S (acute vagal inhibition). Second, by favoring the MIST-S over other strong stressors known to induce a multidimensional stress response (e.g., Trier Social Stress Test, TSST; Kirschbaum, Pirke, & Hellhammer, 1993), several potentially disruptive factors such as postural changes or walking (Chan, Lin, Chao, & Lin, 2007;Nater, La Marca, Florin, Moses, Langhans, Koller, & Ehlert, 2006), and vocalization (Bernardi, Wdowczyk-Szulc, Valenti, Castoldi, Passino, et al, 2000;Sloan, Korten, & Myers, 1991) were controlled for. Therefore, the MIST-S seems particularly useful to investigate the relationship between different response variables that are not equally susceptible to the potentially disruptive factors.…”