We present a multi-modal stress dataset that uses digital job interviews to induce stress. The dataset provides multi-modal data of 40 participants including audio, video (motion capturing, facial recognition, eye tracking) as well as physiological information (photoplethysmography, electrodermal activity). In addition to that, the dataset contains time-continuous annotations for stress and occurred emotions (e.g. shame, anger, anxiety, surprise). In order to establish a baseline, five different machine learning classifiers (Support Vector Machine, K-Nearest Neighbors, Random Forest, Long-Short-Term Memory Network) have been trained and evaluated on the proposed dataset for a binary stress classification task. The best-performing classifier achieved an accuracy of 88.3% and an F1-score of 87.5%.

Inside my iPhone is a cornucopia of Irish men. "It's currently clear and 25 degrees," Colin Farrell replies when I ask him the weather. "A 7.45am alarm is now off," says Michael Fassbender when I beg him for some extra sleep. "Here's what I found on Google," Domnhall Gleeson cheerily answers when I screech: "I have spilt coffee all over my stovetop – how to clean white shirt and kitchen bench?" I feel like he is negging me – or playing hard to get, perhaps.

Alice,* a 31-year-old director from London, has been breaking the coronavirus lockdown rules. "I almost don't want to tell you this," she says, lowering her voice. Once a week, Alice, who lives alone, walks to the end of her garden to meet her best friend Lucy.* Alice struggles to let her go. "You just get that rush of feeling better," Alice says.

Writing about negative events and past failings is one of the most effective ways to reduce stress and give you a new lease of life, new research claims. Acknowledging and analyzing what went wrong during prior setbacks gives people insight which helps them cope better in future stressful situations, researchers found. People are often advised to ''look on the bright side' when they fail and move on, but the new study suggests thinking critically about these negative events can actually lead to better outcomes in the future. Instead, researchers at Rutgers University-Newark found that simply thinking about negative events could be used to help people manage stress better, and improve performance in many areas, including therapeutic settings, education and sports. Previous studies have shown that paying close attention to negative events or feelings -- by either meditating or writing about them -- can actually lead to positive outcomes.