If you turn on the stress response chronically for purely psychological reasons, you increase your risk of adult-onset diabetes and high blood… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
At its worst, there's just virtually no organ system in your body that's not thrown out of kilter in some way by… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Go get yourself stressed all the time and the common cold becomes more common. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
One definitely wants to have a functioning hippocampus. It's all about learning and memory, the part blown out of the water by… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Well, much of my research over the years has been on stress, and the adverse effects of stress on the health of… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
It's a profound privilege to die from stress related diseases. It is the elimination of other causes of death such as infectious… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
For 99 percent of the beasts on this planet, stress is about three minutes of screaming in terror after which it's either… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
My lab looks at the ability of stress hormones to kill brain cells, and basically we are trying to understand on a… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Is stress always bad? No - if a stressor isn't too extreme, is only transient, and occurs in what overall feels like… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
You don't want to end up telling somebody who's homeless or a refugee that stress is all perceptual, because it sure isn't… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
That's what stress management is about, that's what psychotherapy is about, finding religion, or finding your loved one or your hobby -… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Successful stress management heavily revolves around combating the building blocks of psychological stress - a feeling as if you have no control… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology, the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
You don't want to end up telling somebody who's homeless or a refugee that stress is all perceptual, because it sure isn't in those… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
I think the relationship between social-dominance orientation in people and the extent to which they're made uncomfortable by ambiguity and novelty is really important.… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
Juvenile justice is probably the area that's most ripe for reform, in the nice liberal sense of the word, simply because there's no getting… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
When it comes to how neuroscience could help the wider public, the worst thing is when we make advances in, say, mindfulness, and then… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
“Words unconsciously shift thoughts and feelings. One person's 'terrorist' is another's 'freedom fighter'; politicians jockey to commandeer 'family values,' and somehow you can't favor… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
Being president does seem a lot more stressful than being vice president. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
If a male primate is mean to a female primate, her whole family will come after him. We don't have that sort of accountability… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
Authoritarians have always been here. But the features of a given moment make that way of thinking more or less appealing. Germany in the… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
The key thing about us is that we all belong to multiple tribes. Even if we are predisposed into dividing the world into 'us'… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share
