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...more than 20,000 injuries each year. "Anything you do to make your car feel like your territory will make you more upset when someone steals your parking space," says Jacob Benfield, a co-author of the study. In fact, a vehicle's aggressive persona was a better predictor of road rage than the driver's personality. So if you come across the SWEAT-BOX OF DEATH--a name actually given by one of the study's participants to his Ford Bronco--steer clear. He's awfully territorial...
...stance by saying that his prejudice is “against ideas, not people.” I think Golding is wrong. He is prejudiced not against ideas, but against generic labels that are applied to people. If, as he purportedly believes, religious affiliation is such a good predictor of political values, then he might expect that Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush (both United Methodists) might be allies in D.C., or that William Safire and Ellen Goodman (both Jewish) would be in accord on every topic they wrote about. I hope Golding sees that, taking other factors into account...
...Baylor has noted, this is certainly unique compared to the old method of trying to predict what people would do by which denomination they belonged to. Over the last few decades that has proven to be an ever-weakening predictor of moral and political behavior, particularly as denominational definitions have become more elastic and fewer people are attending a church because of the specifics of its doctrine. The current sociological truism is that a Methodist who finds his way to church three times a week and a Catholic who attends daily Mass have more in common than either does with...
...eight years. Researchers found that the men who were categorized as “high hostility” performed worse on every examination than less hostile men. Even when confounding variables such as smoking habits and Body Mass Index were taken into account, hostility still emerged as an independent predictor of the rate of pulmonary deterioration. While many researchers have examined the link between stress and cardiovascular disease, this study is the first to investigate the long-term effect of negative emotions on the lungs. Lead researcher Laura D. Kubzansky, an assistant professor of society, human development, and health...
...accurate are they? No test is an infallible predictor of behavior, says Paul Sackett, a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota who has studied the tests for 25 years. But standards have improved vastly over the past decade, thanks to the emergence of a uniform language involving five main types of behavior. The testing industry remains largely unregulated, however. "There's still a Wild West of unsupported, unproven tests out there," says Annie Murphy Paul, author of The Cult of Personality Testing...