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Being Greedy May Be Keeping Me Healthy
Category: My Greedy Roots
Several years back there was a popular song, Don't Worry, Be Happy. It turns out happy people may have fewer health problems to worry about because they are....happy. This is the conclusion of a study just reported.
I need to read the research findings to see what the other positive emotions were that also made people happier. Could greed be one?
Happy People Are Healthier, Carnegie Mellon Psychologist Says
Happiness and other positive emotions play an even more important role in health than previously thought, according to a study published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine by Carnegie Mellon University Psychology Professor Sheldon Cohen.The researchers interviewed volunteers over several weeks to assess their moods and emotional styles, and then infected them with either a rhinovirus or an influenza virus. The volunteers were quarantined and examined to see if they came down with a cold.
The people who report positive emotions are less likely to catch colds and also less likely to report symptoms when they do get sick. This held true regardless of their levels of optimism, extroversion, purpose and self-esteem, and of their age, race, gender, education, body mass or prestudy immunity to the virus.
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