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Want to deal with stress? Find someone else stressed. Together, you can both be not stressed. Or calm, the dictionary tells us. A study published in Social Psychological & Personality Science found that commiserating with a similarly stressed person (that is, someone facing the same stressor) can reduce the stress … Read More
Twitter may be a lair of narcissists and trolls, but it’s become something of a bellwether, for better or for worse. The question is, how? Researchers in China investigated the question in a study published in the awesomely-named Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. Basically, the researchers harvested a … Read More
When it comes to political positions, it appears that we’re all a bit delusional. More to the point, liberals tend to underestimate the amount of agreement amongst those who share their political position, whilst conservatives tend to overestimate how much other conservatives agree with each other. A study published in … Read More
Laid up in bed with an injury? Break out the pen and paper. A study published in the British Journal of Health Psychology found that people who wrote expressively healed from a biopsy faster than people who did not. Forty-nine older adults took part in the study; half of them … Read More
Burning the midnight oil? You’ll probably follow that up with a nightcap. Or two. According to a study published in the British Medical Journal, people who work long hours also tend to drink more than those with less strenuous schedules. According to the researchers: “In a cross sectional analysis of … Read More
