When Someone Else's Tragedy Becomes Your Fear

Psychology Today | 05.08.2026 20:25
We now have unprecedented access to so much information. Thanks to social media, digital news platforms, and various safety phone apps, we find out that a high school classmate lost his battle with cancer, but that Princess Catherine won hers. We learn that there was a car break-in five miles away, and that a prisoner in another state on death row was found innocent after 20 years and was set free. We can learn this information all within a matter of minutes.