{"id":2011,"date":"2024-04-06T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T10:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2024-04-21T11:13:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T11:13:48","slug":"predictors-of-long-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/blog\/predictors-of-long-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longevity Project: Psychological predictors of a long life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back when I was studying to become a psychologist, I had been fascinated by the \u201ctermites\u201d \u2013 the nickname of the participants of a project by Lewis Terman, who over 80 years ago began to study 1,500 ten year old Californians. Generations of researchers have been working on this project, following the termites over the decades, to find out (among other things) what factors help people live longer. So what predicts longevity? Read the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/looking-in-the-cultural-mirror\/201206\/psychological-predictors-long-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Psychology Today blog<\/a>&nbsp;to get a little taste of the answers the researchers have found. The blog is about the book called \u201cThe Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ultimately, there\u2019s no \u201cmagic pill\u201d to guarantee a long life, but the research shows that strong predictors of a long life is living your life with purpose, such as with meaningful work, and making social ties with friends and loved ones. Find out more \u201ctips\u201d by reading the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Longevity-Project-Discoveries-Eight-Decade\/dp\/0452297702\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1339604295&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/toehk\/8023375226\/in\/photolist-ddZTVC-9UFbPe-3Ux4E2-8MwE8s-6ss53d-dssqJ7-3WJSz-mTiCJr-56bkxL-9ifZae-4bMVZ5-49dfMG-8MH2jB-ab3Pqa-DuHx9-grR7Fw-b7j38c-8z7CcJ-5SPjbR-R1yZQ-6agmPN-c5XPDw-97QU6v-Jbe6W-j8Pon-5hpqZx-beW7pa-96kGLD-b7yJSv-ACkWS-dKw732-7fCJEz-8LhERt-8Xwe2s-36q9UV-5RhPBY-5Dy4V3-fPSbVu-7tq4Gr-iPY82w-5ZfoTP-8bVjn4-5WJE7c-4EWyp-u6TEQ-dgKwHC-53Up78-a3XS3Q-amXFRT-oe78nT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tauno Tohk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was studying to become a psychologist, I had been fascinated by the \u201ctermites\u201d \u2013 the nickname of the participants of a project by Lewis Terman, who over 80 years ago began to study 1,500 ten year old Californians. Generations of researchers have been working on this project, following the termites over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":20,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zestologi-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dee-goo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}