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Maximizers vs. minimizers: The personality trait that may guide your medical decisions – and costs

  • Written by Laura Scherer, Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Missouri-Columbia
imageA suitable disposition helps the medicine go down. Cropped from charlesonflickr/flickr, CC BY

Do certain people want more medical care than others do? And, does that matter?

To consider this idea, start by answering the following question: Which of the paragraphs below describes you best?

“I prefer active medical interventions and being...

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