The 10 Most Anxiety-Inducing Decisions and Why They Stick in Your Brain

The 10 Most Anxiety-Inducing Decisions and Why They Stick in Your Brain

Some decisions barely scrape the emotional surface. Dinner plans, what to stream, and whether you’ll participate in that group chat today. Then there are the other decisions. The decisions that twist your stomach into a knot of anxiety because you know they might reroute your entire life. A new study in Psychological Science asked more than 4,000 people to name the toughest real-life decisions they’d made. Once researchers sorted their answers, …