http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-09-gene-magnifies-psychological-impact-life.html

via @[1217208313:2048:Andrea Kuszewski]:

Intensity is not always bad! Sometimes it can be a gift. I am reminded of Hume:

“Some people are subject to a certain delicacy of passion, which makes them extremely sensible to all the accidents of life, and gives them a lively joy upon every prosperous event, as well as a piercing grief, when they meet with misfortunes and adversity. Favours and good offices easily engage their friendship; while the smallest injury provokes their resentment. Any honour or mark of distinction elevates them above measure; but they are as sensibly touched with contempt. People of this character have, no doubt, more lively enjoyments, as well as more pungent sorrows, than men of cool and sedate tempers.”

—David Hume, 1742, Of the Delicacy of Taste and Passion

From my perspective, studies give us data… our interpretations are often myopic glosses on ‘function of parts’.