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Have a Ball: The Value of Teaching Your Kid How to Catch

April 27, 2013 By Robert Duffer 4 Comments

The art of catching a ball is a complex motor skill and a fundamental social skill

Filed Under: Families Tagged With: cdc, developing fundamental motor skills, fight or flight, first grade milestones, hand eye coordination, how to catch a ball, sports and socialization, teaching children how to catch

Adolescent Humiliation

April 11, 2013 By Andy Bodle Leave a Comment

fight or flight, bullying, alpha males, pecking order, boys will be boys, boys fight, male aggression, sexual attraction, male adolescence

Andy Bodle fights and flees the pecking order.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Suicide, The Good Life, Womanology Tagged With: 1980s, Alpha males, ancestral bias, boys fight, boys will be boys, British school boys, bullying, dating, fifth form, fight or flight, male adolescence, male aggression, male ambition, Male Sex Drive, partying, pecking order, Phil Collins, school days, school life, sexual attraction, social hierarchies, suicide attempt, teen angst, teens drinking, testosterone

What Would You Do if You Walked Into a Murder in Progress? (Video)

March 4, 2013 By Deanna Ogle 7 Comments

Two men put in hidden cameras in an elevator to see if people would help a man in a life or death situation. How would you react?

Filed Under: Bits & Pieces Tagged With: 9/11, bystander effect, crisis, elevator, experiment, fight or flight, filming, freeze, help, intervene, men, murder, paralyze, people, preparation, reaction, video, women, YouTube

When Stress Leads to Male Bonding & Compassion

February 21, 2013 By Emma Seppala 4 Comments

Dr. Emma Seppala on the new evidence that men are more likely to cooperate in difficult circumstances.

Filed Under: Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction Tagged With: acute stress, Aneeta Rattan, Benjamin Converse, Bernadette von Dawans, blow off steam, Brene Brown, deep friendships, emma seppala, fight or flight, human compassion, Krishna Savani, male bonding, male psycology, Markus Heinrichs, men and compassion, Psychology Today, road rage, Robert Sapolsky, Shelley Taylor, stress hormones, the effects of stress, the science of compassion, types of stress, University of Freiburg

Hyperarousal: Beyond Fight or Flight

February 20, 2013 By Justin Cascio 2 Comments

In a crisis, your choices are limited, but it’s not as bad as you think.

Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence, Featured Content, Health, Psych, & Addiction, The Good Life Tagged With: 9 to 5, acute stress response, adrenalin, adrenaline, amygdala, crisis, critical thinking skills, daily grind, deer in headlights, defenses, ego death, emergency, emergency response, emotional intelligence, evolutionary psychology, fight or flight, Fighting, hyperarousal, identity, karoshi, litigiousness, manhood, masculinity, mental health, overwork, problem-solving, psychology, PTSD, road rage, self defense, state of emergency, Stress, stress symptoms, submission, threats, trauma

Intelligent Conflict

September 28, 2012 By Eric Sentell 4 Comments

Eric Sentell provides strategies for managing conflict and disagreement.

Filed Under: Emotional Intelligence, Featured Content, Sex & Relationships, The Good Life Tagged With: anger, Arguing, assertiveness, communication, compromise, conflict resolution, contempt, criticism, defensive, disagreement, Divorce, emotional intelligence, fight or flight, Fighting, fighting with your spouse, Forgiveness, John Gottman, listening, marital conflict, marriage, nagging, negative, negative emotions, respect, Sex and Relationships, tension, The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

In the Face of Stress, Do Men Always “Fight or Flight”?

June 1, 2012 By Daniel W. Barrett 5 Comments

Daniel Barrett examines the different ways in which men and women react to stress.

Filed Under: Conflict Tagged With: conflict, Daniel Barrett, fight or flight, men and stress, Shelley Taylor, von Dawans, Walter Cannon

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