![]() So someone who’s deciding whether to take a new job and is feeling stressed by the decision might weigh the increase in salary more heavily than the worse commute. This means when people under stress are making a difficult decision, they may pay more attention to the upsides of the alternatives they’re considering and less to the downsides. “Stress seems to help people learn from positive feedback and impairs their learning from negative feedback,” Mather says. “Stress is usually associated with negative experiences, so you’d think, maybe I’m going to be more focused on the negative outcomes.”īut researchers have found that when people are put under stress-by being told to hold their hand in ice water for a few minutes, for example, or give a speech-they start paying more attention to positive information and discounting negative information. “This is sort of not what people would think right off the bat,” Mather says. ![]() It’s a bit surprising that stress makes people focus on the way things could go right, says Mara Mather of the University of Southern California, who cowrote the new review paper with Nichole R. A new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reviews how, under stress, people pay more attention to the upside of a possible outcome. ![]() ![]() Feeling stressed changes how people weigh risk and reward. Trying to make a big decision while you’re also preparing for a scary presentation? You might want to hold off on that. ![]()
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