stressor
Noun
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Noun
stressor (plural stressors)
- (psychology, biology) An environmental condition or influence that stresses (i.e. causes stress for) an organism.
- 1997, Edward M. Hallowell, When You Worry About the Child You Love (page 162)
- These children are constitutionally sad. Other children, like Luke, develop depressive feelings out of the blue or in response to some mild stressor.
- 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, p. 670:
- These paradoxical pleasures […] are acquired by controlling one's exposure to the stressor in gradually increasing doses.
- 1997, Edward M. Hallowell, When You Worry About the Child You Love (page 162)
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