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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is, at least, an arriving.” So says Father Vincent in “Cry, the Beloved Country,” Alan Paton’s celebrated novel about South Africa.

Now, research published in Nature Communications suggests that knowing that something bad is going to happen is better than not knowing whether it will happen or not.