You’ve had a good year; you got a bonus and a raise, so you’re so much happier, right? Well, if you’re what a recent study calls a “frustrated achiever” probably neither of those things made you any happier. A frustrated achiever is defined in the study as “an individual[s] who reports, in a given year […]
Tobacco kills 5 million people across the world annually, in addition to lowering smokers’ life spans by about six to 10 years. While cigarettes’ negative effects are widely known, alarming statistics like these have not been sufficient in convincing people to quit the habit. For that reason, public health officials routinely consider hitting smokers where […]
People always say that money can’t buy happiness, but can it help? A new study found that while money cannot buy happiness, it can contribute to an individual’s overall life evaluation (i.e. looking at where your life is compared to where you want it to be) but has little to moderate effect on positive or negative feelings about your […]
Forget the booze, it is simply the lack of sleep that causes gamblers to risk more. In a recent Duke University study, researchers tested 29 young adults who had just pulled an all-nighter to find out how sleep deprivation affects decision-making, specifically choices linked to economic gambles. The experts learned that when people are sleep […]
If getting healthy isn’t enough of an incentive for you to lose weight, perhaps some cold hard cash will do the trick. A new study found that people who are offered a financial reward for getting fit drop more pounds than people without a monetary motivation. American culture is known for both its capitalism and […]
Can earning a college diploma make your heart healthier? Maybe not directly, but a study finds that people who are went to college are less at risk for heart disease than other less-educated people. Data demonstrates that the blood pressure levels of people who didn’t pursue school past 12th grade are significantly higher than that […]
