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Adam Grant, organisational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, suggested in a recent article that “languishing” is the best word to describe this feeling and that it’s so common it may become the dominant emotion of 2021.
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ATHENS Businessman Thanassis Lavidas, a majority stockholder of Greek pharmaceuticals Lavipharm, died Saturday aged 73.
He assumed the helm of the family company in 1976, and served as member of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) board for 12 years.
Lavidas also chaired the Greece-US Business Council, and had been recognized by France as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 2011 for promoting dialogue between nations and for the collaboration across the Mediterranean basin countries, especially between Greece and France.
He was also member of Boston-based biotechnology ARIAD s board, which trades on Nasdaq in New York.
Lavidas had Bachelor and Master s degrees in chemistry from Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich, an MBA from Paris-based Institut Supérieur du Marketing et du Management, and a PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of Athens.
If you re about to go on a long-distance flight, don t worry about getting jetlag if you want to swiftly adapt to a new time zone, a new study suggests.
In a sample of 90 people, experts in Germany found a link between concerns pre-flight over developing jetlag, and severity of the disorder after landing.
They call this a form of the nocebo effect – a negative version of a placebo, where people are more likely to experience an adverse effect if they expect or are worried about it occurring.
Amazingly, classic factors thought to impact jetlag – the number of time zones crossed or travel direction – didn t have an effect on jetlag severity.