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Stress (biology) – History and usage

The term ”stress” had none of its contemporary connotations before the 1950s. It is a form of the Middle English ”destresse”, derived via Old French from the Latin ”stringere”, to draw tight. It had long been in use in physics to refer to the internal distribution of a force exerted on a material body, resulting [...]

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Fan (person) – Fan psychology

Sports The drivers that make people fans, and in particular sports fans, have been studied by psychologists, such as Dan Wann at Murray State University. They attribute people becoming fans to the following factors: One element is entertainment, because sports spectatorship is a form of leisure. Sports is also a form of escapism, and being [...]

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John Milsum – Publications

* 1955. ”Preliminary investigation of transient cooling of aircraft electronic equipment using heat storage material”. with William G. Nance. * 1957. ”Problems in optimizing of stochastically-disturbed, saturating regulators, employing a binary error criterion”. Thesis Sc.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. * 1966. ”Biological Control Systems Analysis”. McGraw Hill ISBN: ISBN 978-0070423985 * [...]

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Eustress – Compared with distress

Distress is the most commonly-referred to type of stress, having negative implications, whereas eustress is a positive form of stress, usually related to desirable events in a person’s life. Both can be equally taxing on the body, and are cumulative in nature, depending on a person’s way of adapting to a change that has caused [...]

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Eustress – Examples

* Meeting or engaging in a challenge. * Coming in first place in a race. * Getting a promotion at your job. * Watching a suspenseful or horror movie. * Love, marriage, or childbirth. * Riding a roller-coaster. * The holidays. * Purchasing something, such as a new car. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Eustress, [...]

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Sports periodization – History

The roots of periodization come from Hans Selye’s model, known as the General adaptation syndrome (GAS), describing biological responses to stress. Selye’s work has been used by the athletic community since the 1950s (Fleck, 1999). The GAS describes three basic stages of response to stress: (a) the Alarm stage, involving the initial shock of the [...]

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Anxiety/Uncertainty Management – Working assumptions

Complex theories such as AUM need to accept certain assumptions as true before the real content can be explored. Some metatheoretical assumptions Gudykunst makes on AUM are on the nature of reality, the way we gain knowledge, and the basis of human behavior. Gudykunst assumes that the basic processes of communication are the same across [...]

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Eustress – Introduction

Eustress is a term coined by endocrinologist Hans Selye which is defined in the model of Richard Lazarus (1974) as stress that is healthy, or gives one a feeling of fulfillment or other positive feelings. Eustress is a process of exploring potential gains. Adapted from the Wikipedia article Eustress, under the G. N. U. Free [...]

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Hans Selye – Work on stress

His last inspiration for general adaptation syndrome (GAS, a theory of stress) came from an endocrinological experiment in which he injected mice with extracts of various organs. He at first believed he had discovered a new hormone, but was proved wrong when every irritating substance he injected produced the same symptoms (swelling of the adrenal [...]

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Stress (biology) – Models

General adaptation syndrome Physiologists define stress as how the body reacts to a stressor, real or imagined, a stimulus that causes stress. Acute stressors affect an organism in the short term; chronic stressors over the longer term. Selye researched the effects of stress. Alarm is the first stage. When the threat or stressor is identified [...]

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Fight-or-flight response – Negative effects of the stress response in humans

The stress response halts or slows down various processes such as sexual responses and digestive systems to focus on the stressor situation and typically causes negative effects like constipation, anorexia, erectile dysfunction, difficulty urinating, and difficulty maintaining sexual arousal.. These are functions which are controlled by the parasympathetic nervous system and therefore suppressed by sympathetic [...]

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Hormesis – Introduction

Hormesis (from Greek ”hórmēsis” “rapid motion, eagerness,” from ancient Greek ”hormáein” “to set in motion, impel, urge on”) is the term for generally-favorable biological responses to low exposures to toxins and other stressors. A pollutant or toxin showing hormesis thus has the opposite effect in small doses as in large doses. A related concept is [...]