How Anxiety Can Increase the Likelihood of War

Psychology Today | 11.04.2026 04:48
On April 8, 2026, readers of The New York Post awoke to this headline: "Apocalypse Not Now." It capped an unparalleled 24 hours of national and international anxiety over whether a full-scale attack on Iran by Israel and the United States would proceed and succeed to pulverize Iran "back to the Stone Age."