Stress-influence tendency

What it is

Mild stress can sharpen performance, but extreme stress degrades judgment and can produce rigid or extreme reactions.

Related

• Decision fatigue bias
  Pressure and exhaustion both erode the quality of decisions.
• Doubt-avoidance tendency bias
  Under stress we end doubt quickly, even prematurely.
• Drug-misinfluence tendency bias
  Substances and stress both alter judgment, and stress can lead to substance use.

Appears in

• Munger's 25 standard causes of human misjudgment#17: Stress-influence tendency

References

• Wikipedia: Stress-influence tendency en.wikipedia.org
• Munger's 25 standard causes of human misjudgment fs.blog
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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