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Stress is Good


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The btrmt. article that inspired this. And more here, and here.

The Atlantic Article, demonstrating the typical approach to stress

Sapolksy's book Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

The Yerkes Dodson Law (or the Wikipedia page)

Vartinian et al. (2020) , Goldfarb et al. (2017), Lenow et al. (2017) or this commentary are all good places to check out the relationship between low stress and cognitive flexibility etc vs higher stress and the kind of cognitive rigidity that leads to performance.

Eustress (Hans Seyle, 1976) More modern developments would be Cognitive Appraisal Models and Attribution Theory

Chronic Stress and extended Allostatic Load



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