Study Reveals That Stress can be Contagious

A new study suggests that while observing another person in a stressful situation can be enough to make our own bodies release the stress hormone cortisol thus making stress contagious. This is the conclusion reached by scientists involved in a large-scale cooperation project between the departments of Tania Singer at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and Clemens Kirschbaum at the Technische Universitat Dresden. Empathic ...