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May 8, 2009

New Study Finds Job Loss Can Make You Sick

Filed under: Psychology News — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 11:00 pm
In the face of rising unemployment and businesses declaring bankruptcy, a new study has found that losing your job can make you sick. Even when people find a new job quickly, there is an increased risk of developing a new health problem, such as hypertension, heart disease, heart attack, stroke or diabetes as a result of the job loss. The study will be published in the May 8 issue of Demography.

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April 25, 2009

Atheists are unhappy? Really?

Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 12:00 am
Most studies looking at the demography of religion take a broad look - religion as a continuum from the highly devout to the stridently atheist. They tend to find that the religious people are, the happier they are.But it's pretty hard to gauge what that actually means for atheists. Atheists are different from religious people with doubts. Also, many atheists in religious countries find themselve

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