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How Stress Affects Thinking

Posted on October 06, 2008

Considering all the excitement on Wall Street these days, investors sweating out the storm may look into research on how stress influences pattern recognition in humans. But first, remember what you see in the two images above.From the New York Times:The researchers say that their experiments, which also tested people s tendency to detect conspiracies and see superstitious lessons in stories, help explain why conspiracy theories and superstitions flourish when people are feeling out of control. Previous researchers have reported, for instance, that first-year business-school students are mo...

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