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Who knew? Stress and anxiety are actually good for us. People generally think of stress and anxiety as negative concepts, but while both stress and anxiety can reach unhealthy levels, psychologists have long known that both are unavoidable -- and that they often play a helpful, not harmful, role in our daily lives, according to a presentation at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, as reported by newswise.com. “Many Americans now feel stressed about being stressed and anxious about being anxious. Unfortunately, by the time someone reaches out to a professional for help, stress and anxiety have already built to unhealthy levels,” says Lisa Damour, PhD, a private-practice psychologist who presented at the meeting at newswise.com. Damour also writes a regular column for  The New York Times  and is author of the book “Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls.” Stress usually occurs when people operate at the edge ...

Quick quiz. Who do you think is more moral , a man who struts around trying to prove how masculine he is (I won't name names)?  Or a man whose favorite pastime is reading in a quiet corner? If you guessed the first guy, you'd be right. According to a new study, "a lthough some studies have linked high levels of testosterone to immoral behavior, a new study publish ed in  Nature Human Behaviour  finds testosterone supplements actually made people more sensitive to moral norms, suggesting that testosterone’s influence on behavior is more complicated than previously thought," reports newswise.com. . Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin took a deeper look at the hormonal underpinnings of moral reasoning . Previous research has investigated moral judgment on the basis of behavioral responses and brain activity, but the current study goes beyond this to analyze the role of deep-seated biological factors, particularly testosterone. “There’s been an in...

Now this presumably will come as no surprise to anyone, but a new study says that supervisors are driven by the bottom line . Duh. But this may surprise you.  Those who do this do not get their employees' top performance, according to newswsie.com. That's probably not a surprise to anyone, either. Who wants to turn in stellar work when his boss makes him work past a guaranteed end time  (forget your son's soccer game) or criticizes, as I've experienced, everything you do, because your department is not meeting the bottom line? I won't mention the Fortune 500 company. " Supervisors driven by profits could actually be hurting their coveted bottom lines by losing the respect of their employees, who counter by withholding performance, says a new study led by Baylor University," as reported by newswise.com. “Supervisors who focus only on profits to the exclusion of caring about other important outcomes, such as employee well-being or environment...