Further reading:

·      The btrmt. article that inspired this

·      Stress is Good (Lecture 1) — the stress lecture that set this up

·      More on stress and the Yerkes-Dodson Law

·      Why fight-or-flight isn’t what you think

·      Pop Neuroscience is Just a Fancy Way of Saying “Calm Down” — the next lecture in this thread

·      How we make meaning in the brain

References:

·      The Atlantic article — the management professor’s piece on stress and the amygdala

·      Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (1995)

·      Amygdala hijack (Wikipedia) — note the lack of academic citations

·      Amygdala (Wikipedia) — particularly the section on emotional learning

·      Pessoa (2010): Emotion and cognition (PDF) — reappraisal evidence, pg 44

·      Janak & Tye (2015): From circuits to behaviour in the amygdala — the complexity of amygdala function

·      Adolphs (2015): “The unsolved problems of neuroscience” — on the amygdala and emotional significance

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