Today in America, there are 77,000 clinical psychologists and 192,000 clinical social workers. Fifty years ago, those numbers were 2,500 and 30,000, respectively. What’s going on?
You guessed it! Once again, researchers at Gallup have found that the folks in Scandinavia are the happiest in the world. Those of us in the U.S… well, we’re much happier than the people who live in Togo.
Good news! Seventy percent of dietitians who participated in a recent survey believe chocolate can be part of a healthy diet. Oh yeah… the survey was conducted by Hershey’s.
Members of the Harvard Business School Class of 2010 wanted to know how to find meaning in their personal lives, so they invited HBS Professor Clayton Christensen to share his views.
If irritability is your brain’s response to outside stimuli — changing the stimuli will change your mood. So get a lemon, order some Chinese, and get over it already.
A new study reports that men who sit more than 23 hours a week, whether watching television, commuting in a car, or sitting at a computer have a 64 percent greater chance of dying from heart disease than those who sat for 11 hours a week or less (and a daily workout at the gym doesn’t make much of a difference).
Economists say there’s a link between workers’ happiness and their job performance — and offer employers some friendly advice that they would do well to take note.
Human intelligence is higher, on average, in some areas of the world than in others. Researchers at the University of New Mexico have found a correlation between a country’s average IQ and its disease burden.
Health experts are puzzled by the behavior of adults who never seemed to grow out of the eating habits typical of kids. Some fear that picky eating lasting through adulthood could be a new kind of eating disorder.
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