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Brown: Past Stressful Experiences Do Not Create Resilience to Future Trauma, New Study Finds
June 12, 2020
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 12 -- Brown University issued the following news release:

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger -- that claim is so universally accepted that it's a common truism in contexts from everyday conversations to Top 40 pop charts.

But new research led by a team of Brown University researchers finds that this is false.

In fact, the research suggests the opposite is true: Past stressors sensitize people to future traumas, . . .

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