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Worriers are more analytical, ignore ‘gut instinct’

September 2, 2013 by

The musician Bobby McFerrin once sang, "Don't worry, be happy." But a recent paper published in Psychology Review, which points to evidence that the brain uses two systems - systematic and heuristic - to process information, may create a new lyric: "Don't worry, be heuristic." Though the lyrics may not be catchy, for worriers, the findings could help...

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