PULLMAN, Wash., Oct. 15 -- Washington State University issued the following news release:
PULLMAN, Wash. - Environmental sensitivity may be a misleading name for a personality trait that appears to have less to do with how people respond to their physical environments and more to do with how they are affected by social experiences and perceived threats.
A new Washington State University study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology found that people who score highly on measures of environmental sensitivity - often called highly sensitive people - are no more emotionally reactive to everyday conditions such as uncomfortable temperatures, unpleasant smells or noisy streets than their less sensitive counterparts.
Instead, the r...