Letting go

Step back to move forward emotionally, study suggests

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---When you're upset or depressed, should you analyze your feelings to figure out what's wrong? Or should you just forget about it and move on?

New research suggests a solution to these questions and to a related psychological paradox: Pocessing emotions is supposed to facilitate coping, but attempts to understand painful feelings often backfire and perpetuate or strengthen negative moods and emotions.

The solution is not denial or distraction. According to University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross, the best way to move ahead emotionally is to analyze one's feelings from a psychologically distanced perspective.

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I outnerded you all

Very entertaining! Watch the other battles too.

Not that surprising, but still fucked up

Sexism pays: Study finds men who hold traditional views of women earn more than men who don't

When it comes to sex roles in society, what you think may affect what you earn. A new study has found that men who believe in traditional roles for women earn more money than men who don't, and women with more egalitarian views don't make much more than women with a more traditional outlook.

This is really fucked up

Comedian Sabina Guzzanti 'insulted Pope' in 'poofter devils' gag

An Italian comedienne who said that Pope Benedict XVI would go to Hell and be tormented by homosexual demons is facing a prison term of up to five years.

Way to go, Italian prosecutors! Next on their list: Dante. Unfuckingbelievable.

Everybody can relate to this poor guy

You know Google would not miss it

The LHC can even help you getting laid

So cool

I hope it won't take long for machines like this to put an end to one the most tedious jobs ever created: the photocopy operator.

Weird album covers I happen to have

Just don't ask...

Rap for nerds

On catch phrases and meaningless terms

Check out the first part of this George Carlin HBO special (2005). The mofo was talented. Watch the first five minutes.

It might kill a cat...

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