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How your mind, under stress, gets better at processing bad news

8 mins | May 25, 2018

There’s probably never a perfect time to receive bad news. But Dr. Tali Sharot, writing in Aeon magazine, explains why times of stress are actually when we are best-suited to process alarming information.

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