Watch Kelly McGonigal's How to Make Stress Your Friend and answer questions: https://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend/comments

Question 1:

Dr. McGonigal cites a study that looked at 30,000 adults in the United States. What did this study find about people who experienced a lot stress in the past year? Was this true for all the people surveyed?

Question 2:

Who had the lowest risk of dying of any of the groups in the study McGonigal mentions at the beginning of her talk?

People who had relatively little stress

Younger people who experienced a lot of stress

People who experineced a lot of stress but did not view stress as harmful

Question 3

Changing how we think about stress can change our bodies' responses to stress.

True

False

Question 4

In the social stress test study conducted at Harvard University, what were participants taught to think about stress? What happened as a result?

Question 5

What "cuddle hormone" is actually a stress hormone?

oxytocin

cortisol

insulin

histamine

Question 6

How does oxytocin contribute to our stress response? What does it nudge us to do, and how might it help us during times of stress?