Archive for December 27th, 2006
Extreme Stressors
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006Laboratory research on stress necessarily involves only mild and short-term stressors. Real-life stressors are unconstrained by such ethical considerations. Naturalistic observation has identified stress response patterns in the wake of extreme stressors like natural and technological disasters, personal losses, and societal changes. We can identify five major categories of such extreme stressors: [...]
