Triumphs of Experience : : The Men of the Harvard Grant Study / / George E. Vaillant.
At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years, and often become more fulfilling than before. Begun in 19...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (480 p.) :; 5 figures |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Cast of protagonists (decathlon score)
- 1 Maturation makes liars of us all
- 2 The proof of the pudding
- 3 A short history of the grant study
- 4 How childhood and adolescence affect old age
- 5 Maturation
- 6 Marriage
- 7 Living to ninety
- 8 Resilience and unconscious coping
- 9 Alcoholism
- 10 Surprising findings
- 11 Summing up
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index