Fourth, communication researchers study the role of stress and negative attitudes as key contributors to conflict, anger as an escalator of conflict, and emotional residues as barriers to reconciliation.

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Descending pathways from the cortex to the reticular formation are responsible for the stimulating (i.e. arousing) effects of mental activity, and for the process of autoarousal, whereby the well-motivated person may “will himself” to stay alert when fatigued, etc.

Russian journalist Andrei Zhukov's work in Soviet archives produced a list of over 40,000 little Eichmanns who acted as willing, if not enthusiastic, executioners.