People in the Education field have known that stress hampers learning for a long time ... but it's still nice to see empirical results.

Yet elite universities revel in making learning experience as stressful as possible.

Of course they do - they're in the credentialing business.

There is some real world value to selecting for people whose learning is more resilient under pressure

I wonder if it helps explain in part why the Publish or Perish culture is wrecking science and stalling scientific progress. The stressful environment it tends to create it's not conductive to learning and thinking in depth.

cleaned up url: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea5496