Death anxiety correlate with bedtime procrastination. The more you report that you are anxious about dying, the more likely you are to dilly dally before going to bed. This is one of the things that is suspicious. But only for men, does death anxiety correlation with bedtimeprocrastination. And they report this as some evidence for the link between sleep as as a reminder of death,. and this individual difference in death anxiety.
David and Tamler try to control their emotions (with varying success) as they go deep into Franz Kafka's masterful novella "The Metamorphosis." What kind of a story is this? A Marxist or religious allegory? A work of weird fiction? A family drama? A dark comedy? Why does a story about a man who turns into a giant insect get under our skins so much?
Plus a study that links insomnia to our fear of death. What a cheerful summer episode! (Actually we're fairly proud of this one... As always we suggest reading the text before you listen or soon after).
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