Talk:Hysterical strength

message: The page Physical strength now links to this. Removing orphaned banner.84.9.13.98 (talk) 23:38, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Orphan

message: Just a thought, perhaps instead of butchering articles to where they become unreadable just adding a "needs citation" marker at the end of a paragraph? Especially when there is a header to the effect of an article being unsourced?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.132.6.31 (talk) 12:54, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Disputed examples

message: Among all sources that were stated in this page, no one describes  "Hysterical strength" as its topic. FYI: An article on it.wiki, which is very similar to this one, is going do be deleted. --Marie de France (talk) 11:57, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done some very brief googling, but haven't found any Reliable sources yet, just interesting sources. Listing below, for the sake of curiosity, clues, and keywords. –Quiddity (talk) 00:28, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: The section titled "in media" is really just a two-paragraph overview of superpowers in fiction, which has no relevance to an article about cases of ordinary people summoning great strength in life or death situations. If this section is to exist, it needs to contain media depictions of "hysterical strength" rather than a discussion of comic book superheroes. This article is light enough on factual content as it is however so I'm reluctant to delete it. 95.148.112.244 (talk) 15:21, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch, I've removed it. Do you know any media depictions of the actual topic?  There's got to be *some*. HCA (talk) 18:43, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional superheroes? Not relevant 

message: Hysterical strength is a really terrible term, with sexist overtones (see Hysteria#History). I wonder whether, given that what would have been called hysteria is now called somatization disorder, whether Hysterical strength should be Acute somatization strength or similar. This has the danger that ideas about the pathogenesis of an acute stress-induced increase in strength might be weighted towards more central command models, rather than peripheral sympathetic- or adrenaline-induced models, but perhaps this is a small price to pay. I know that Wikipedia isn't the place for neologisms, but I wonder whether there might be a way of shifting this term, without losing the concept. No, I hadn't intended that this should be an ASS of an idea ... I am trying to be serious! Klbrain (talk) 23:46, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  A new nomenclature? 

message: Can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seyit_%C3%87abuk 188.3.151.200 (talk) 17:01, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another good example 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The blurb at the top states that most experts do not believe anecdotes of people lifting cars to rescue loved ones are accurate. Immediately afterward, we have a long list of people who have lifted cars to rescue loved ones. What gives? -Muga Sofer (talk) 15:23, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely if this were real, there would be countless anecdotes throughout history in a military setting, where life and death encounters are the default. Maybe what we're learning is that leveraging a car just enough to pull someone from under it, is a readily achievable feat, that just rarely happens. Surely there's some cellphone videos of these many 21st century rescues? The exact position of the car and victim could be recreated with a dummy, and see if random people could move the car the same way, under calm conditions. vroman (talk) 10:09, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real or Not? 

message: It seems like the majority of Hysterical strength#Examples cited are recorded happening in America even though America is only about 4% of the world. This seems bizarre and disproportional. Can we cull the American examples down to one or two (~4% ideally)? They're almost all examples of humans tilting cars expressed in medieval units. The currently level of redundancy is redundant. One well-documented incidence should be adequate to support the idea of tipping cars. 49.180.85.242 (talk) 02:50, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Over-representation