Talk:Amygdala hijack

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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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)[reply]