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Tricks From the Elderly to Stop Worrying
The Wall Street Journal: Recent research into how emotions change with age may be able to help people lead healthier and longer lives and bring about new treatments for depression in the elderly. Like people’s
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Does Wisdom Really Come with Age? It Depends on the Culture
“Wisdom comes with winters,” Oscar Wilde once said. And it’s certainly comforting to think that aging benefits the mind, if not the body. But do we really get wiser as time passes? There are many
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Why old people are more happy: They have learnt to avert their eyes from things likely to bring them down
The Daily Mail: Older people are happier than younger adults because, simply, they avert their eyes from things that are likely to make them upset, research shows. The finding explains research that has shown that
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Why Do Older Adults Display More Positive Emotion? It Might Have to Do with What They’re Looking At
Research has shown that older adults display more positive emotions and are quicker to regulate out of negative emotional states than younger adults. Given the declines in cognitive functioning and physical health that tend to
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Improving Intelligence
Improving intelligence has preoccupied society since French psychologist Alfred Binet devised the first IQ test. Since then, the notion that intelligence can be calibrated has opened new avenues into figuring out how it can also
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¿Se es mas sabio con la edad? (Are we wiser with age?)
ABC España: Todos recordamos la serie Kung Fu, con el anciano e inteligente maestro chino dando consejos a su «pequeño saltamontes». Hace dos años, Igor Grossmann, de la Universidad de Waterloo (Canadá), se preguntó si
