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Under stress, downgrade to simplified behavioral protocols…
Under stress, downgrade to simplified behavioral protocols with lower cognitive demands rather than attempting to maintain full systems through willpower.
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… (stress impairs prefrontal function). This prescribes designing fallback systems for stress conditions — actionable strategy from axioms about stress-cognition interaction.