Ruminating Russians

Jonah Lehrer relays new research showing how Russians better cope with depression than Americans:

The psychologists gave subjects in Moscow and Michigan a series ofvignettes that described a protagonist who either does or does notanalyze her feelings when she is upset. After reading the shortstories, the students were then asked to choose the protagonist thatmost closely resembled their own coping tendencies. The results wereclear: While the American undergraduates were evenly divided...