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Type A, B, and C Personalities

Type A, B, and C Personalities

Richard
Dec 27, 2017
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Type A

Medical commentary from the late 1960s through the 1990s speculated about two types of personalities associated with disease. Cardiologists Meyer Friedman and RH Rosenman coined the phrase "Type A Personality" several years after they noticed that their waiting-room chairs needed re-upholstering sooner than those in other medical offices. Cardiac …

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