When we get sick, men and women employ different coping mechanisms that vary even more depending on our personalities, according to researchers at Washington State University and at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce.
For example, a single-symptom illness bothers women more than men, but women are more stoic than men when they succumb to a multi-symptom illness, according to study author Robert Rosenman of WSU.
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