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What to know about anxiety
Anxiety is a normal and often healthy emotion. However, when a person regularly feels disproportionate levels of anxiety, it might become a medical disorder. Anxiety disorders form a category of mental health diagnoses that lead to excessive nervousness, fear, apprehension, … Continue reading
The complex interaction between anxiety and cognition
Anxiety can be distracting, disruptive, and incapacitating. Despite problems with empirical replication of this phenomenon, one fruitful avenue of study has emerged from working memory (WM) experiments where a translational method of anxiety induction (risk of shock) has been shown … Continue reading
The impact of anxiety upon cognition
Anxiety disorders constitute a sizeable worldwide health burden with profound social and economic consequences. The symptoms are wide-ranging; from hyperarousal to difficulties with concentrating. This latter effect falls under the broad category of altered cognitive performance which is the focus … Continue reading
Anxiety and Politics
In this essay, Franz L. Neumann discusses the role of anxiety in politics. The article asks: How does it happen that the masses sell their souls to leaders and follow them blindly? On what does the power of attraction of leaders over masses … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Authoritarianism, Fascism, Political economy, Political psychology, Politics
Tagged anxiety, authoritarianism, Fascism, political economy, political psychology, politics
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How to stop being a Workaholic
Working that hard kept the furious, roiling anxiety at bay that I’ve struggled with my whole life, the result of facing daily uncertainty and lack of safety growing up in an alcoholic home. Its percussive beat behind my breastbone was … Continue reading
Class, Precarity, and Anxiety under Neoliberal Global Capitalism
Circumstantial precarity correlates with anxiety, but the relationship is complex because people often quell anxiety by denying precarity. This article focuses in particular on how in this neoliberal era such psychological responses to precarity are class variegated and articulated with … Continue reading
Posted in Anxiety, Denial, Neoliberalism, Precariat, Social class, Solidarity
Tagged anxiety, denial, neoliberalism, precariat, social class, solidarity
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