Spousal Spats May Have Health Benefits
Today Show, CBS News, USA Today and others.
Married couples who express anger may outlive those who suppress it. “If you bury your anger, and you brood on it … and you don’t try to resolve the problem, then you’re in trouble,” said Ernest Harburg in the School of Public Health and psychology department.
Anger in America
ABC News, Jan. 21
Brad Bushman says that narcissism is on the rise in America, particularly young people. “There’s something in American culture that seems to feed these narcissistic tendencies.”
Lead linked to aging in older brains
Associated Press, Jan. 27
Could it be that the “natural” mental decline that afflicts many older people is related to how much lead they absorbed decades before? Dr. Howard Hu suggests that the long-term effects of the high-lead era are still being felt.
Cities study dearth of healthy food
USA TODAY, Jan. 25
Some areas suffer a grocery gap: They’re rife with fast food but lack fruits, vegetables. Ana Diez-Roux, at the School of Public Health says, “It’s very difficult for people to change their behaviors if they don’t have an environment in which to make that change.”
Taxpayers hang on to rebate checks
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 28
New York Times, Jan. 31
Research by Matthew Shapiro and Joel Slemrod into the effect of an earlier tax incentive similar to the one now in Congress found that only 28 percent of the people in a national survey reported spending most of their rebate checks soon after receiving them.
