Selye
Americannoun
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In his 1936 personal-development opus “How to Win Friends and Influence People,” Dale Carnegie quoted the Vienna-born scientist Hans Selye: “As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.”
From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2017
Everything comes around; Dr Hans Selye looked into this many years ago.
From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2016
It could also explain the notion of “eustress,” invented by endocrinologist Hans Selye to refer to a combination of euphoria and stress, such as that resulting from watching tense sporting events.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2014
According to the late Dr. Hans Selye, the Austrian-born founding father of stress research, stress is simply "the rate of wear and tear in the body."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Dr. Hans Selye, the father of stress research, mapped the hormonal pathways shown in the illustration above some 40 years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
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