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Cheer up! Optimists live longer
Here’s a good reason to turn that frown upside down: Optimistic people live as much as 15% longer than pessimists, according to a new study spanning thousands of people and 3 decades. Scientists combined data
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Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
“It’s not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The plane was dark and quiet. A man
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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of research exploring life satisfaction and well-being, how men’s facial hair influences anger displays, working memory capacity and mind wandering, and the temporal dynamics of perceiving weight.
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2019 RAND Summer Institute
The 26th Annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI) will take place July 8-11, 2019, in Santa Monica, CA. Application Deadline: March 15, 2019 The RSI will consist of two conferences addressing critical issues facing our aging
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Long Live Psychology! … and Long-Lived Psychologists
APS Fellow David G. Myers celebrates the psychological scientists who continue to publish well into their 80s and beyond.
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The Trick to Keeping Friends as We Get Older
Two or three times a week, Alan J. Fink, 64, the owner and manager of a box business in Baltimore, listens as his mother wishes out loud that she had good friends to go out
