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Study: Pollyanna Will Outlive Everyone

If a chipper person in your life is annoying you, maybe you should brace yourself for that person outliving you in the long haul, according to findings of a new study. A study of 100,000 women presented at the American Psychosomatic Society's annual meeting Thursday found a strong correlation between optimism and a person's risk for cancer-related death, heart disease and early death. Researchers surveyed the personality traits of middle-age women in 1994 as part of the Women's Health...Full Story
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