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- Today's workplace stresses - too many emails, a creaking
intray, a demanding boss - may at least help to prevent minor illnesses,
researchers have found.
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- The study at Plymouth University found that when students
were placed under stress their body's immunity was given a temporary boost.
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- Samples of saliva were taken from them before and after
they were set demanding computer based tasks. Levels of immunoglobulin
- naturally occurring proteins which act as anti-bodies to a range of minor
infections - were found to rise at times of stress.
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- Mark Wetherell, a PhD student who carried out the research,
said: "The results suggest that the stress caused by the computer
tasks stimulated an increase in immunity, [which] is important to ensure
that the body is still able to fight off infections during times of stress."
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- Mr Wetherell, who plans to look in more detail at the
link between stress and illness, presents his findings today to the psychology
postgraduate affairs group conference in Glasgow.
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- Yesterday Kate Holden told the conference of the danger
to vulnerable people from psychics.
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- Her research showed that those with low self-esteem were
more likely to visit psychics.
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- She said one person she had questioned -who believed
absolutely in the claims of psychics - had developed marital problems after
being told she should divorce her husband.
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- Among other papers given was one disclosing that people
who claimed to be more intuitive were better at guessing who contestants
would pick on Blind Date.
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- Another noted that people with big hands felt less pain
when they touched hot things, while a third concluded that bullies lacked
empathy.
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