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Known Unknowns

How to make no news good news.
Words by Bella Gladman. Photograph by Pascal Silvain.

Waiting for news—be it medical test results, exam grades or the outcome of a job interview—can be agonizing. Kate Sweeny is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside, and one of her research topics is the mental impact of waiting for news: why it’s so distressing, whether anticipation serves a purpose and what we can do to make the waiting period more bearable. Sweeny’s advice is to distract yourself, stay grounded in the present moment and, above

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This story is from Kinfolk Issue Thirty-six

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