**3. Methodology**

#### *3.1. Laboratory Data Collection*

We collected controlled laboratory data from the participants during a psychological experiment using our implementation of the Trier Social Test (TSST) [35]. The social test has been proven to be an academically effective way of inducing stress after the baseline condition we created at the beginning of the experiment. This experiment was conducted on 14 different participants who were university students aged between 20 and 25. There were nine male and five female participants.

The experiment, which took approximately 1 hour, had the following steps:


The communication language between interviewers and the participants was Turkish. Please note that the mother tongue of all participants was Turkish. In addition to that, they knew English as a foreign language. This circumstance affected stress induction.
