Posts by Dan Lerner & Dr. Alan Schlechter
“I am excited”: Making Stress Work for You, Instead of Against You
— How much stress is good for you? In 1908, Robert Mearns Yerkes and John Dillingham Dodson designed an experiment that would begin to tackle the question, “How much stress is good for you?” The researchers tracked mice to see how stress would affect their ability to learn. Simple—yet painful, because how do you stress out mice?
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