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Research on thoughts and stressPublished by Nitin Shah [nitin_shah] on 2008/11/1 (181 reads)Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the Department of Veterans' Affairs in Boston discovered in a study in 2001 that people who viewed the world more optimistically had half the risk of coronary heart disease compared to their more pessimistic counterparts. Another study conducted in 2002 at Yale University found that thinking positively about ageing adds approximately seven-and-a-half years to your life.
Further research, published in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2002, reveals that optimists tend to have happier lives and are healthier, regardless of the degree of stress they experience. The joint research project, by staff at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard Medical School, suggests that attitude strengthens the immune system. Research by psychologists at Carleton University, Canada, has also shown that stress is often caused by people putting off undertaking a task. They isolated five forms of 'faulty thinking' that contribute to this type of behaviour which they call 'procrastination'. The five 'faulty' beliefs are identified as:
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