Theos-Talk Archives (March 1998 Message tt00270)

    If I understood "the way of things", this list (KOF listserv) is no
longer in time...KOF seems a "cough"...
    Without jokes, very curious the study. I must confesse that I liked know
that my initials (FF) in French is also like the masonic abbreviattion to
"Brother".
    If the difference for positive between negatives significance is near 7
years, I hope can be useful this extra-years.

Fernando de Freitas

>-----Mensagem original-----
>De: Bjorn Roxendal <roxendal@sunrise.alpinet.net>
>Para: KOF listserv <LISTSERV@list.iex.net>
>Data: Segunda-feira, 30 de Março de 1998 22:18
>Assunto:  The Power of the Word to prolong life

>Initials can affect long life, study shows
>
>           There's more than irony involved in men's initials that form
acronyms
>like P.I.G., B.U.M. and
>           U.G.H. - they don't live as long as those with initials like
V.I.P.
>and W.I.N., a California
>           researcher has found. A study of death certificates shows that
men
>whose initials have negative
>           connotations died an average of 2.8 years sooner than a control
>group, whose initials were
>           meaningless, Nicholas Christenfeld, Ph.D., associate professor
of
>psychology at the University of
>           California at San Diego, said. Men with positive initials lived
an
>average of 4.48 years longer than
>           the control group, he said.
>--
>Bjorn
>
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