Principlev1
Stress both increases willpower demand and decreases
Stress both increases willpower demand and decreases willpower supply simultaneously, creating a multiplicative deficit that breaks willpower-dependent systems.
Why This Is a Principle
Grounded in Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (willpower depletion), Subcortical Fast-Pathway Threat Processing (fast threat processing), and Under acute stress, the prefrontal cortex degrades in (stress impairs prefrontal function). Describes the stress-willpower interaction effect — derived from axioms about stress physiology and cognitive resource limits.