Get More Control, More Predictability in your Life…Maybe More predictive information about impending stressors can be very stress-reducing. But not always. As noted in chapter 13, it does little good to get predictive information about common events (because these are basically inevitable) or ones we know to be rare (because you weren’t anxious about them in the first place). It does little good to get predictive information a few seconds before something bad happens (because there isn’t time to derive the psychological advantages of being able to relax a bit) or way in advance of the event
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