Scientists decided to find out who lives better, optimistic or pessimistic. These facts are discouraged

Intuitively: the positive optimists who live alone and not peretruzhdaetsya, of course, need to live better lives than pessimists are sad and tired. But it turned out that everything is not so.

The famous psychologist Lewis Terman of Stanford University and his colleagues followed the lives of a thousand children since 1921: described the history of the family relationships in it, fixed evaluation of teachers and parents, recorded information on hobbies and pets, level of education, military service, career and a host of other details.

Then other researchers from Harvard, decided to analyze the data from the command Terman. Their work was delayed as much as two decades and led to quite unexpected findings largely contradict traditional notions of health and longevity of people.

The site publishes key findings of scientists: Marriage can be good for health of men, but in women is not reflected; those that divorced and have remained alone, live almost as much and women in long-term marriage; In most cases, a healthy / unhealthy way of life determines his entourage, and not his personal inclinations.


via factroom.ru