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Data were collected as part of a larger 9-month longitudinal study investigating the mental and physical health outcomes associated with relationship transitions (e.g., breakups). Participants underwent a standardized stress protocol (i.e., The Trier Social Stress Test; Kirschbaum, Pirke, & Hellhammer, 1993) that incorporates motivated performance tasks, uncontrollability, and social-evaluative threat—all of which are key components to reliably eliciting a stress response (Dickerson & Kemeny, 2004). Physiological reactivity and recovery were assessed using samples of salivary cortisol, a stress hormone of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis—one of the body’s primary stress response systems. Results from multilevel modeling indicated that cortisol trajectories among those whose relationships persisted versus those whose relationships ended were not significantly different from one another. 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Additionally, individuals who displayed nonadaptive hormone responses to a novel setting and a standardized stressor (i.e., took longer to recover, demonstrated greater increases in total cortisol output) were no more likely to report experiencing a breakup than were individuals who displayed adaptive responses to the same settings. 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