Tag
Stress
Entries tagged stress.
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Concept
The Biology of Stress
The body's response to threat is a two-speed cascade, a nervous surge and a hormonal one, that saves us from acute danger and wears us down when it never shuts off.
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Mental modelThe Yerkes-Dodson Law
Performance improves as arousal rises but only up to a peak, and that peak sits lower for hard tasks than for easy ones.
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