Summary-Cynicism and Mistrust Tied to Early Death

In the past, many researchers believe “Type A” people, who work too hard under stress and always in a hurry, were tend to suffer heart disease than relaxed men; however, there were a series of studies disprove this point. Dr. Williams, who conducted numerous studies on this topic, points out people whose personality traits reflect cynical mistrust, anger, and angry behavior, are more likely to die early. Moreover, hostile people have weaker nervous system than nonhostile people so that hostile people continue feel angry and larger rises in blood pressure. William stated “I think we should abandon the Type A hypothesis, because there is no evidence that Type A personality is likely to die young. But there is a lot of evidence that people who are hostile and angry do.”