If stress is truly bad for our health, as much research suggests, then you would expect neurotics to have shorter life expectancies. About two decades ago, however, Howard Friedman at University ...

If stress is truly bad for our health, as much research suggests, then you would expect neurotics to have shorter life expectancies. About two decades ago, however, Howard Friedman at University ...

he did seem to be ahead of his time when it came to certain aspects of the trait. “Neurotics complain of their illness,” he once wrote. “But they make the most of it.” ...

In a paper called “The Downfall of Extraverts and Rise of Neurotics: The Dynamic Process of Status Allocation in Task Groups,” Bendersky and co-author Neha Parikh Shah, an assistant professor ...

Neurotics can actually be motivated to work really hard especially in collaborative situations.” At the beginning of the study those with extroverted personalities were given high status ratings ...

To most of them, neurotics at heart, this was not really news; they had already had this word from several doctors. Such unsatisfactory verdicts sent them to still other doctors until they got the ...

As interdependent work unfolds, she finds, extroverts lose stature and neurotics gain stature. In an interview with strategy+business, Bendersky, an avid tango and salsa dancer who describes herself ...

Put more simply, neurotics may do better when they automatically react because they pay close attention, especially if the situation feels menacing. Delaying their response may only increase the ...

I’d originally conceived “Neurotics Anonymous” as 5 x 15mins to go out in the 10.45am slot on Radio 4. Each episode would focus on a different member of the support group, with a different ...

Some Points of Agreement between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics. By Sigmund Freud. Authorized translation by James Strachey. Pp. xi + 172. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., ...