The mental impact is what Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence has labeled the «
amygdala hijack» — precipitating anger, brooding, withdrawal or other automatic, impulsive responses.
This has been referred to as the «
amygdala hijack.»
This type of language has the tendency to cause
amygdala hijack.
When we're pitched into
an amygdala hijack, whether intense or low level but ongoing, we're in sympathetic nervous system arousal.
Art Johnson calls this «
the amygdala hijack.»
An amygdala hijack increases the probability that a lawyer won't think of that clever response on the spot.
In what has been termed an «
amygdala hijack» by Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, the amygdala takes over the most rational parts of our brain, including the prefrontal cortex.
(It takes most adults 15 - 20 minutes for our bodies physiologically to calm down after
an amygdala hijack.)
Not exact matches
«They get
hijacked by their
amygdala.
So during this fight - or - flight response when the stress chemicals are being released, our
amygdala has, in a way, «
hijacked» our neocortex.
Otherwise, without a foundation of a trusting relationship, the brain's
amygdala will get «
hijacked,» which leads to fear, disengagement, and flight.
We can literally * hear * each other better and more once our
amygdala stops
hijacking those moments.