Can stress be helpful?
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
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Stress and Hormones
A little stress can help people focus, get more done or perform better at physical things like sports. Research has shown that a little stress can actually help people focus,. The yerkes dods in law is named after two psychologists who first document to this effect. There's a picture here of an upside down it's called the inverted u, or the yerkesdods in law.
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