Humans can psychologically buffer the stress of being low-status in one area of life, like a job, by focusing on being high-status in another, like being captain of a sports team.

Testosterone doesn't create aggression but rather lowers the threshold for provocation and amplifies existing aggressive tendencies.

Dopamine is not about the pleasure of a reward itself, but about the anticipation of the reward and generating the goal-directed behavior needed to get it.

In situations where generosity is the behavior that maintains high status, giving people testosterone can make them more generous and trustworthy.

By increasing confidence, testosterone can make people cocky, impulsive, and less cooperative, which can lead to poor risk assessment and bad decisions.

Telling someone in a truly dire situation like having terminal cancer to simply 'take control' of their stress is not helpful and can be a form of 'privileged heartlessness.'.

The biggest benefit of a stress management technique comes from prioritizing your well-being enough to stop and practice it for 20-30 minutes daily.

Having physiological levels of estrogen is protective against dementia and cardiovascular disease because it enhances cognition, stimulates neurogenesis, and increases glucose and oxygen delivery to the brain.

The psychological perception of control determines whether exercise is beneficial or stressful, as shown by rats who get health benefits from voluntary wheel running but stress from being forced to run the same amount.

Unlike any other animal, humans can feel inadequate and stressed by comparing themselves to abstract people on social media or fictional characters they've never met.