Acute stress is a highly adaptive response, but it may become chronic, and then we need to rethink the way we live.
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My name is Simon Moesgaard, a psychologist from Denmark, and this is my blog about psychology.
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The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress
Posted in Coping, Mental Health, Stress
Tagged actual value, set value, stress, stress hormones, work life
4 Elementary Ways of Relating to Others
Different situations foster different types of relationships.
Fiske (1992) posits that there are four elementary forms of sociality, which will be described below. Fiske’s theory suggests that human beings are fundamentally social, and people of all cultures seem to make relationships in one of the four ways, depending on the context of the relationship. Continue reading
Posted in Relationships, Social Psychology
Tagged authority, communal sharing, equality, groups, market pricing principle, social, work life
