hotmedfaxnow2020

So you've lost everything in the coronavirus meltdown. But be comforted.  People with money tend to be more lonely than the rest of us.  That's because people who base their self-worth on their financial success  o ften feel that way in everyday life, a newly published study by the University at Buffalo and Harvard Business School, newswise.com reports. “When people base their self-worth on financial success, they experience feelings of pressure and a lack of autonomy, which are associated with negative social outcomes,” the web site quotes says Lora Park, an associate professor of psychology at UB and one of the paper’s co-authors. “Feeling that pressure to achieve financial goals means we’re putting ourselves to work at the cost of spending time with loved ones, and it’s that lack of time spent with people close to us that’s associated with feeling lonely and disconnected,” adds Deborah Ward, a UB graduate student and adjunct faculty member at the UB’s psycho...

Can there ever be too many men ?   Some think more men, more problems.  But now a new study says that may not be true. The study focused on the fact that, since men are more prone to competitive risk-taking and violent behavior, what happens when the number of men is greater than the number of women in a population?    According to research by Florida State University Professor of Psychology Jon Maner, the answers might not be what you expect, says newswise.com.   “ When men outnumber women in a given ecology, intuition might suggest that rates of violent crime would skyrocket, marriages would destabilize and many children would be born out of wedlock, ” the web site quotes him .  “ Intriguingly, the opposite has been observed. ”   Although ecological sex ratios have been investigated extensively in nonhuman  species,  they  play a crucial role in humans as well. Many factors can produce sex ratio imbalances, includ...

This may sound very strange.  But I'm enjoying this lockdown.  My husband, who's never home, is home from work (though, as a dentist, he's still called in for emergencies -- in QUEENS!), and our son is home from college, where he had a roommate who allegedly did  illegal things and then brought a dog into the room, because he had "anxiety" (stop dealing!). But I'm enjoying the shutdown from chores and running to help out at my church's homework club (though I miss the kids) and trying to make reservations for Family Weekend at Stony Brook before they all sell out, and all the other trivial but necessary things that make up my day. Oh, and I'm practicing gratefulness, too. I've been writing a lot more, and running, increasing my miles.  It's one of the few things that makes me feel really good in this time where restaurants and department stores and churches are closed, and we have to think all the time if we're at risk for getting this ...