We all experience stress. From sitting exams to having bills to pay, our lives are full of difficult events. One question that psychologists ask is how do we decide whether an event is stressful? Why is it that an event can be highly stressful to one person, while another person does not find it stressful at all? These are the questions at the heart of research on stress appraisal.
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