Transformative psychology #13: Internal conflict resolution under duress

While the field of conflict transformation is generally concerned with conflict management methods between and among parties to a conflict, in recent years neuroscience research is studying how we manage our inner conflicts--a melding of neuroscience and psychology relative to conflict response. 

Brain scientists have been helping us understand the aspects of how we humans are hard-wired--or not--to respond to threats, but most interestingly, how we can manipulate or even rewire that hard wiring. In a recent study, for instance, researchers tested responses to presenting problems using situations that were resolved by normal methods and comparing those to test participants who faced atypical conflict scenarios--could they successfully flex and adapt? (Sauter, et al., 2024)

References

Sauter, A. E., Zabicki, A., Schüller, T., Baldermann, J. C., Fink, G. R., Mengotti, P., & Vossel, S. (2024). Response and conflict expectations shape motor responses interactively. Experimental Brain Research, 242(11), 2599–2612. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.pdx.edu/10.1007/s00221-024-06920-w