“A fever is a coping response, not a sign of illness.” —George Vaillant Like all living systems, we human beings have evolved multiple mechanisms for defending against threats to our survival and ...

You may use defense mechanisms to help protect you from stress, but they can be both helpful and harmful. Recognizing defense ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In your quest for happiness, you might be unknowingly sabotaging yourself. Defense mechanisms, those automatic psychological ...

Understand these self-protective psychological processes. Defense mechanisms are psychological processes that someone unconsciously engages in to avoid discomfort, and there are several specific types ...

Efforts to suppress or change a child's gender identity and sexuality are ineffective and cause long-term harm, according to new research.

Researchers have unpicked the mechanism behind a marine feeding strategy that could provide a valuable renewable source of biofuel. Their research has been published as a Reviewed Preprint in eLife, ...

When confronted with an antibiotic, toxic substance, or other source of considerable stress, bacteria are able to activate a defense mechanism using cell-to-cell communication to 'warn' unaffected ...