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Concentration Ability May Get Better With Age
Like a barrel-aged whiskey or a ripening cheese, some things improve with maturity – including some cognitive abilities, new research shows. While many visual and cognitive abilities seem to peak in early adulthood and decline
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How Intelligence Shifts With Age
The Wall Street Journal: Is the saying “older but wiser” just an old wives’ tale? We all know people who are as foolish at 60 as they were at 20 and others whose smarts have
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Young Children’s Self-Control and the Health and Wealth of Their Nation
Longitudinal data collected from thousands of participants from New Zealand and the United Kingdom show that childhood measures of self-discipline predict everything from personal income to the pace of physiological aging in adulthood, APS Fellow
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Do people become more prejudiced as they grow older?
BBC Magazine: Admirers of Harper Lee’s classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird have been shocked by the transformation of the lawyer Atticus Finch into a racist in the newly published Go Set a Watchman, set
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Why Should We Look Forward To Getting Older?
NPR: Psychologist Laura Carstensen says that as people get older, they usually become less stressed and more content. Carstensen is Professor of Psychology and Public Policy at Stanford University. She is the founding director of the
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Different cognitive skills peak at different times over our lifespans, research finds
MinnPost: Here’s some promising news for anybody who’s aging (and that, of course, is all of us): A recent series of crowd-sourced experiments suggest that different aspects of fluid intelligence — our ability to think
