stress
Problem You have some pretty admirable long-term goals, but pesky short-term gain keeps getting in the way. Reality You’re more likely to choose short-term gain over long-term goals thanks to stress, according to a study published in Neuron. Method Researchers recruited fifty-one participants who said they were trying to maintain … Read More
You know the drill: it’s crunch time at work, so they bring in extra boxes of doughnuts. You’re on the way back from a rough weekend with the family, so you stop at the DQ drive through. You get into a big fight with your girlfriend, and it’s time to … Read More
Man, stress is rough. It predisposes you to mental illness, turns you grey, kills you . . . oh, and high anxiety may cause you to cheat. Or, at least, make it a little more likely. A study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology has found that people are … Read More
We’re stressful guys with stressful lives—and the way we respond to stress may be keeping us up at night. According to a new study published in Sleep, not only is stress keeping us awake at night, but poor coping strategies are too. What poor coping strategies? Well, like behavioural disengagement, … Read More
Man, stress causes heart attacks, predisposes you to mental illness, and even makes you shoot blanks. Now it’s time to add something new to the list: type-2 diabetes. A study published in Psychosomatic Medicine has found that workplace stress is a risk factor for type-2 diabetes—people under pressure on the … Read More
