Threat erodes the human tendency to readily accept good news over bad, according to experiments conducted in a lab and with on-duty firefighters.
Researchers at Princeton University in the U.S. and University College London in the UK note that, in general, people tend to be overly optimistic. The opposite is true in psychiatric conditions such as depression, in which some people are biased toward negative information.
Through their experiments, researchers say they show that the ability to...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/08/07/people-may-process-bad-news-better-under-stress/137567.html
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