Summary: Cynicism and Mistrust Tied to Early Death

Some early researches believe "Type A" people, working hard under stress and always in a hurry, are more likely to die under the age of 50 than "Type B" ones, who are calm and trusting. According to a psychiatrist Dr. Redford B. Williams,however, through the experiment on 118 lawyers, a recent research points out that personality traits, such as cynicism, anger and mistrust are the main reasons leading to premature death. Furthermore, hostile and nonhostile people have different nervous systems in fact. For hostile people, they have weaker nervous systems than the nonhostile, which results in getting angry easily and raising blood pressure. As a result, we should abandon the Type A hypothesis because no evidence can prove it. On the other hand, there is lots of evidence that people who are hostile and angry are in the risk of premature death.