--- --- # How Other People's Stress Impacts Your Brain by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 13, 2018 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 13, 2018 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**How the stress of people around you impacts your brain.**](https://www.ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2018-02-13/your-stress-now-my-stress-research-study-explains-how) By _Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary_ **2\.** [**Forget the bombast. The data shows political correctness isn’t running amok.**](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/12/17100496/political-correctness-data) By Matthew Yglesias in _Vox_ **3\.** [**To predict and prevent dropouts, this school gauges student engagement by tracking their movements.**](https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/12/17109224/university-of-arizona-tracking-smartchips-student-ids-privacy-drop-out) By Shannon Liao in the _Verge_ **4\.** [**Technology can empower employers to give ex-felons a shot at good jobs.**](https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/policing/2018/03/12/change-hiring-practices-ensure-ex-felons-arent-automatically-eliminated-running/1049186001/) By Teresa Hodge in _USA Today_ **5\.** [**A special high-fiber diet could boost the health of people with type 2 diabetes.**](https://news.rutgers.edu/fiber-fermenting-bacteria-improve-health-type-2-diabetes-patients/20180306#.WqZ-n4L%5FpTa) By Todd B. Bates at _Rutgers University_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ Five Best: How Other People's Stress Impacts Your Brain ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5197274/how-other-peoples-stress-impacts-your-brain/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5197274/how-other-peoples-stress-impacts-your-brain/"},"headline":"How Other People's Stress Impacts Your Brain","datePublished":"2018-03-13T16:00:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:00.971Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5197274/how-other-peoples-stress-impacts-your-brain/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Stress","diabetes"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5197274/how-other-peoples-stress-impacts-your-brain/","name":"How Other People's Stress Impacts Your Brain"}}]}] ```