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"For all of those who work under managers who they perceive behave strangely or in any way they don't understand, and they feel stressed, the study confirms this might actually be a health risk."

Anna Nyberg, a psychologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, who found that workers with managers who were inconsiderate, opaque, uncommunicative and poor advocates were about 60 percent more likely to suffer a heart attack or other life-threatening cardiac condition. By contrast, employees with good managers were roughly 40 percent less likely to suffer heart emergencies.
Boston Globe, Nov. 24

Contrary to theories that "as things get harder, anxious people fall apart, this suggests it's the opposite way around."

University of California, Berkeley, psychologist Sonia Bishop, PhD, who found that intellectually demanding challenges, such as crossword puzzles or chess, may be more successful at keeping worry-prone people from worrying than supposedly relaxing pastimes like watching TV or shopping.
San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 17

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