Encyclopedia Development
Your personal tool for organizing concepts and mechanisms from development and psychology. We skip academic formulas in favor of clear definitions, cognitive biases, and self-reflection questions that help you name your states precisely.
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Emotional agility
Emotional agility is the ability to notice emotions, name them and choose action consistent with values rather than an automatic…
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Emotional capacity
Emotional capacity is the ability to feel, recognize, and regulate emotions without losing connection with oneself, others, and the task…
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Emotional hunger
Emotional hunger is a felt need for relief, closeness or solace, which is easily confused with physiological hunger.
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Parasympathetic system
The parasympathetic system is a part of the autonomic nervous system that supports regeneration, digestion, lowering arousal and resting functions.
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Physiology of stress
Stress physiology is the body's response to demands or threats, including: nervous, hormonal, muscular and circulatory systems.
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Sanity
Mental health is a state of well-being that enables you to cope with the stresses of life, develop opportunities, learn,…
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Sensitivity
Sensitivity is the increased ability to perceive, experience, or respond to stimuli, emotions, relationships, and meanings.
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Stress
Stress is a mental and physiological reaction to demands, threats or overloads that the body assesses as important.
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Stress factor
A stress factor is an event, condition, or stimulus that triggers a stress response or increases the body's workload.
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Stress reaction
The stress response is the body's physiological and psychological response to demand, threat or overload.
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Sustainability
Balance is the dynamic balance between needs, responsibilities, resources and constraints.
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