Open AccessInformational Stress: Discussion Paper
Author(s) -
Adrian Restian
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of the royal society of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1758-1095
pISSN - 0141-0768
DOI - 10.1177/014107689008300615
Subject(s) - multitude , stressor , organism , computer science , data science , stress (linguistics) , quality (philosophy) , psychology , biology , neuroscience , epistemology , genetics , philosophy , linguistics
Stress can be caused by a multitude of factors requiring the capacity for adaption by the organism. As well as physical, chemical and biological factors, information may also become a stressor in certain circumstances. Stress may be induced just as well by too little as by too much information, and by the quality of the information.
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