Triumphs of Experience : the Men of the Harvard Grant Study /

At a time when people are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers welcome news for old age: our lives evolve in our later years and often become more fulfilling. Reporting on all aspects of male life Triumphs of Experience shares a n...

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Tác giả chính: Vaillant, George E., 1934-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Mục lục:
  • Maturation makes liars of us all
  • The proof of the pudding: to flourish for the next sixty years
  • A short history of the grant study
  • How childhood and adolescence affect old age
  • Maturation
  • Marriage
  • Living to ninety
  • Resilience and unconscious coping
  • Alcoholism
  • Surprising findings
  • Summing up.