How Does Stress Affect Attention?

Researchers found that attention, which is really the only thing that changed, since the images they viewed were identical. If we present stressful images while they're doing this experiment, this gap of attention shrinks. It diminishes attention's power. And things like stress and mind wandering diminish its our but that's all in the context of these very controlled laboratory settings. What about in real world? What about in our actual dayto-day life? Where is your attention right now?