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Volunteers in a study had to turn over rocks in a computer game and avoid the snakes beneath. visualdesign/Shutterstock
Would you prefer to know you were about to receive a painful electric shock, or face a 50 percent chance of the same thing? The choice seems easy. However, a study has found the possibility of pain induces more stress than the certainty.
Published on March 29, 2016 15:09