Dr. Daramus suggests flipping on what she calls a step-down playlist, which starts with songs that will match your fearful or distressed or angry vibe, and then slowly transitions song-by-song to the ...

There's a cousin to the fight-or-flight response. It's called the tend-and-befriend response, and that is an innate quality of us to reach out to someone for help. We have a hormone even built ...

But while there might’ve been some key evolutionary reasons for the tend-and-befriend response to become ingrained in women, everyone can find comfort in connection. Just consider a baby’s ...

Hence, the basis of the “tend-and-befriend” response, which psychologist Shelley E. Taylor, PhD, theorized in 2000 as a more apt depiction of the stress response in women. Because tending and ...