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Do you like doing personality tests? While I am usually cautious of them, I have just completed one, as it is based on a field of psychology research that is currently in the news.

It concerns the theory that some people are more sensitive than average to their environments, and that this has both positive and negative impacts. New Feature

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But sceptics say the idea of these “highly sensitive people” is unscientific and that the claimed signs could really indicate a different condition, such as

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