Get Up And Do Something: Toll of disturbing news is greater for women, study says

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Toll of disturbing news is greater for women, study says Oct 16th 2012, 11:57 Women exposed to disturbing news stories absorb an emotional blow greater than do men--so much greater that when next exposed to a stressful situation, their stress levels soar, according to a new study. And the women remember the bad news longer. Those findings emerged from the small but intriguing study published this week in the open-access journal Public Library of Science (PLoS One), and conducted on 60 participants at Montreal's Center for Studies on Human Stress. Thirty men and 30 women were brought into the lab and asked to read a sheaf of newspaper articles. One group--half women and half men--read excerpts of a dozen neutral news stories. The other group read excerpts of a dozen "negative" news stories--articles that would report violence or misfortune or some event likely to elicit concern.

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