We process emotionally salient information more rapidly and automatically, but with less accuracy. Frontal function-working memory, impulse control, executive decision making, risk assessment, and task shifting-is impaired, and the frontal cortex has less control over the amygdala. And we become less empathic and prosocial. Reducing sustained stress is a win-win for us and those stuck around us.
( Robert M. Sapolsky )
[ Behave: The Biology of Humans ]
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