People process bad news better under stress

(Society for Neuroscience) Threat dissolves the human tendency to readily accept good news over bad, according to experiments conducted both in the lab and with on-duty firefighters. The findings, published in JNeurosci, provide a potential mechanism by which levels of optimism are adapted to the relative safety or danger of the environment.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news