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Article: COLD COMFORT: NEUROTICS HANDLE WINTER BETTER, RESEARCHERS FIND.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- January 13, 2004
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Byline: STEPHEN STRAUSSToronto Globe and Mail
Not worrying may help you be happy, but optimism won't help you endure winter.
New research suggests that the constantly carping neurotics do better at enduring winter's cold than generally positive-minded extroverts.
Researchers subjected a group of 20 students and staff at Quebec City's Laval University to a psychological test known as the Big Five Inventory.
The test sorts five personality traits: extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience.
The study compared extroverts, defined as outgoing, positive and aggressive, with fearful, ...