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Sensitivity is the level a person or group detects and reacts to a stimulus.
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Stimuli have become an ever-encroaching aspect of the “connected” human’s life. A world swimming in oceans of information, whether paper or electric, is rarely at a loss for a stimulus to perceive and react to; the unprecedented volume of accessible information can be a stimulus in and of itself. Lee et al. indicated that suffering psychologically from the stress of overwhelming information and stimulation can be serious and lasting (2016). Painting the volume of information and ease of connection in a negative light fails to acknowledge the benefits of current accessibility. Information access should lead to greater awareness and understanding; however, as Sharot (2017) revealed, often humans just entrench themselves further into the beliefs they had originally, ultimately...
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Gaskins, K., Dunn, S.M. (2019). Sensitivity. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1907-1
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