Brooding Russians: Less distressed than Americans
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 12:35
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 study finds that even though Russians tend to brood, they are less likely than Americans to feel as depressed as a result.