Talk:Amygdala hijack

Stupid

Man what is this stupid article? The function of the amygdala in the fight or flight response is well established without the need for some smart-ass to call it "amygdala hijack". This is not offering anything and I strongly feel it was written by "Daniel Goleman" himself (whoever that is) as an attempt to make himself popular as if it is his own "idea". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.11.230.77 (talk) 22:54, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

While I wouldn't call the entire article stupid, I am also disturbed that many of the key claims being made are backed up by citations that are clearly not written by authors qualified to make factual statements about brain functions - Moe Bedard (a martial artist and occultist) and Joshua Freedman (an Emotional Intelligence consultant) also being particularly concerning.

My suggestion would be to create 2 sections in this article - one that is focused on the neuroscientific evidence and conclusions about the concept of an amygdala hijack and another that is focused on the amygdala hijack as it is understood and presented within the Emotional Intelligence field.

Whatever the case, statements like "the amygdala acts before any possible direction from the neocortex can be received" need better citations than from pop self-help authors that profit from this concept. 64.147.210.162 (talk) 16:11, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

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WHY should this only include celebrities, pray tell? These people are no more notable than any other person on the face of this planet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.252.191.247 (talk) 08:14, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Celebrities are trained to create and stimulate emotional responses. When we gorge on entertainment input, we ourselves are sustaining a self-perpetuating block towards neocortex usage. The majority of our reactions come directly out of the basal ganglia, as opposed to neocortex. Our subconscious emotional responses are hijacked to consume things, believe things, see division and fear that difference.86.149.143.73 (talk) 18:00, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

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Notable examples

Moved notable examples to below. It should not be re-instated until it can be determined that "amygdala hijack" is involved in those examples. As this is not going to happen, it just represents a list of people overreacting. Deciding that "amygdala hijack" is likely involved is not encyclopedic but opinion.

==Notable examples==

[[Mike Tyson]] biting the ear of [[Evander Holyfield]] during their [[Holyfield-Tyson II|1997 rematch]].<ref name="nadler"/>

[[Zinedine Zidane]] [[headbutt]]ing [[Marco Materazzi]] during the [[2006 FIFA World Cup Final#Zidane_sending_off|2006 FIFA World Cup final]].<ref name="nadler"/>

* [[Joe Wilson (U.S. politician)|Joe Wilson]] shouting "You lie!" to US President [[Barack Obama]] during the latter's [[Barack Obama speech to joint session of Congress, September 2009|speech to a joint session of Congress]] in 2009.<ref name="outbursts">{{cite web | title=Outbursts: Where did Their IQ points Go and What were They Thinking? | url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/09/prweb2907714.htm | accessdate = 2010-04-06}}</ref>

* [[Serena Williams]]' abusive language toward a lineswoman during a match against [[Kim Clijsters]] in 2009.<ref name="outbursts"/>

* [[Kanye West]]'s interruption of [[Taylor Swift]]'s acceptance speech during the [[2009 MTV Video Music Awards#Kanye West controversy and debated incidents|2009 MTV Music Video Awards]].<ref name="outbursts"/>

I totally agree and removed the last one that was still in the article. Did you mean to remove it but overlook this one? Lova Falk talk 11:27, 12 July 2010 (UTC)

Goleman (1999) does in fact cite the Tyson earbiting - 'the upshot for Tyson was a classic amygdyla hijack, an instantaneous reaction with disastrous consequences'p. 75 - but I agree that this is supposition on his part, not fact. Jacobisq (talk) 10:40, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

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Just wondering

Is it fair to say that this is basically a scientific explanation for the experience of being flabbergasted? Afalbrig (talk) 21:46, 16 July 2016 (UTC)

Questions

This article states that amygdala hijacks are "out of measure with the actual stimulus", but are they always? Extreme threats, although rare, do exist and amygdala hijacks are the appropriate, survival-driven reaction to them. I am a lay person on this subject, but it seems logical to suppose that only chronically stressed and anxious subjects overreact to non extreme stimuli with amygdala hijacks because, thanks to their higher levels of stress hormones, they live permanently closer to the hijack threshold than the general population. Could any experts give their opinions on this hypothesis? Also, is the amygdala hijack binary or is it a spectrum, having intermediate degrees, where executive functions are impaired, but not totally absent? Can chronic stress and anxiety impair executive functions chronically? A Google search for amygdala hijack + binary + spectrum did not return any meaningful matches. Binho Gomes (talk) 23:16, 24 July 2021 (UTC)