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Questions tagged [stress]

For questions involving internal and external pressures that may or may not elicit behavioral responses

For questions involving internal and external pressures that may or may not elicit behavioral responses.

For more information, see Stress(Psychological).

Please refrain from using this tag (or any other) for "self-help" questions involving this topic.

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Why do we stress over the smallest things?

I'm just curious to know: why do people stress over the smallest of issues? Not only is it common to almost everyone I know, but it is something that can drive people crazy. For example, getting really stressed when you can't get something to work…
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Parasympathetic dominance in a state of alertness and elevated resistance?

According to various sources The parasympathetic nervous system remains dominant in the resistance stage of the general adaptation syndrome The body resists and compensates as the parasympathetic nervous system attempts to return many physiological…
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Anxiety-induced itch: what is the mechanism?

Some people when get anxious become itchy. I wonder how that itch is triggered and works. Does it start as a reaction of the peripheral nervous system to stress-related chemicals like cortisol? Or it starts right inside the brain? This is a short…
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How stressful was life when we lived in small tribes, in comparison to today?

When comparing the stress level of today's life to earlier times, intuition may say: The world is so much more complex today, of course, it's more stressful now. But there is certainly a bias in the intuition. Are there any estimations on how "hard"…
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Can the stress response from neonatal circumcision cause cognitive impairment?

Numerous studies have shown that severe early life stress can cause long term cognitive and learning impairments (ex. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050094/) But I have not found any studies that look into circumcision and cognitive…
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Are the alternative models to the Yerkes–Dodson law legit?

The Yerkes–Dodson law is defined this way (Wikipedia): The Yerkes–Dodson law is an empirical relationship between pressure and performance, originally developed by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson in 1908.1 The law dictates…
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What are the best questionnaires to measure stress before and after use of VR application?

I am making a VR application for my master thesis where people enter a virtual "rage room". I want to check if enhancing VR with the use of haptic feedback, gloves in this case, helps to reduce stress. I am looking for one or more questionnaires to…
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Can stress situations force people to smile?

I've seen many times in my life how people occasionally smile when trying to remain calm under huge stress regarding natural disasters, deaths, big losses, etc. It happened to me also. Everything I find about it is just tips on how to make yourself…
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Programmer: Effects of pauses on stress

I'm a programmer by profession. In the course of my daily routine, I observe that I'd have to frequently "wait" for the computer to do something, before I can continue with my work. Empirically, I'd say that I'd have to interrupt myself in such…
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What is the timeframe of the Yerkes–Dodson law?

What is the timeframe of the Yerkes–Dodson law? The Yerkes–Dodson law is defined this way (Wikipedia): The Yerkes–Dodson law is an empirical relationship between pressure and performance, originally developed by psychologists Robert M. Yerkes and…
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What are the symptoms of over stress?

What are the symptoms of over stress? I define "over stress" as the state where the amount of stress hormone has exceeded an optimal threshold for performance, and where the arousal is very high (see the picture below, from the blog "I Done…
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