Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 - 06:28
in Psychology & Sociology
Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy portrayed Russians as a brooding, complicated people, and ethnographers have confirmed that Russians tend to focus on dark feelings and memories more than Westerners do. But a new University of Michigan study finds that even though Russians tend to brood, they are less likely than Americans to feel as depressed as a result...