Merv Mandelbaum 
Neuroticism is one of the Big Five personality traits. Neurotic people tend to be easily annoyed, anxious, and insecure, with a tendency towards depression. That sucks, right? Well, neurotic people can stabilize in a relationship. This result comes via a study published in the Journal of Personality. Researchers interviewed 245 … Read More
Watch more than three hours of TV a day? If so, we have two questions: how the hell do you have that much time? And do you know you might die sooner than the rest of us? Grim tidings come courtesy of a study published in the Journal of the … Read More
Stress is killing you—so how do you reduce it, quickly? According to a study published in Psychoneuroendocinology, you may need as little as twenty-five minutes of mindfulness meditation a day to reduce stress—which is handy, because it also improves your decision making and cures wandering attention. Researchers had sixty-six healthy … Read More
Burning the midnight oil again? Well, here’s the thing: you might actually be mortgaging your future. That torturously mixed metaphor comes courtesy of my poor sleep, which a new study in PLOS One suggests may cause problems with dementia down the road. The many negative results of poor sleep are … Read More
Sites like Facebook have made it easier than ever to share mundane details of our lives with our entire networks. And yet, to the chagrin of marketing and PR agents everywhere, people are pretty reluctant to share their favourite products on Facebook. So what gives? Well, according to a new … Read More
