March 02, 2006

"[V]ictims of severe accidents who blamed themselves for the accident were coping more successfully eight to twelve months afterward than those who did not, and... victims who blamed other people (as opposed to some nonspecific external cause) displayed especially low coping scores."

–"Hedonic Adaptation" by Shane Frederick and George Loewenstein.(Via Caplan via Cowen.) If true, lawyers are making thousands of people unhappy through Vioxx litigation. Posted by Ted Frank at 08:12 AM | TrackBack (0)