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posted by Fnord666 on Monday April 06 2020, @11:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the mellowing-with-age dept.

Older people generally more emotionally healthy, better able to resist daily temptations:

The stereotype of grumpy old people apparently doesn't hold up under closer inspection. A new study from Duke and Vanderbilt University psychologists finds that older people are generally more emotionally stable and better able to resist temptations in their daily lives.

"There is evidence here that emotional health and regulation improve with age," said Daisy Burr, a Duke PhD student who led the study with Gregory Samanez-Larkin, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience. Their work appeared March 23 in the journal Emotion.

[...] The researchers said their findings are a better reflection of real-world conditions because they surveyed participants in their own time and space, rather than having them respond to cues in a laboratory setting. Burr added that older people are better at regulating their emotional state when allowed to do what they want.

In the end, Burr's analysis of the data found people experiencing more negative affect are worse at resisting desires. Younger study participants who had higher levels of life satisfaction were better able to resist desires.

But older adults were better at resisting temptation, regardless of their life satisfaction.

Daisy A. Burr, Jaime J. Castrellon, David H. Zald, Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin. Emotion dynamics across adulthood in everyday life: Older adults are more emotionally stable and better at regulating desires.. Emotion, 2020; DOI: 10.1037/emo0000734


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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday April 06 2020, @09:11PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday April 06 2020, @09:11PM (#979769) Homepage

    No they won't be much happier. If anything, they'll be much sadder. The reason why is because hanging out in person is a civilizing factor. Now with more of their interactions virtual and online, they're going to be dealing with more garbage that they may be powerless to deal with in real-life. Even they realize online social things like Facebook are an unhealthy necessity and being there is not something to be proud of. "House Party" apps? Yeah fucking right. I don't know anybody who tried it more than once after a big "nope."

    And if this Covid turns out to be a nothingburger like every other bug that flies out of filthy China, they will never obey and will actively revolt against future shelter-in-place orders and the politicians who order them. They don't trust the media, they don't trust the government, and they're right not to after the boy cried wolf half a gazillion times. They're not stupid enough to believe the official reasons of why America's been at war since 9/11. They're not stupid enough to believe the official story of 9/11 itself. Unfortunately, they are stupid enough to believe socialism can work in divided non-homogeneous nations. They're not going to be afraid of this unless their buddies start dropping around them left and right. Having a grandma of a friend of a friend that is in the ICU maybe because of the virus is not going to be a good enough excuse for them to put their lives on hold.

    Furthermore, that boomers screwed them out of prosperity leaves them with a sense of purposelessness and nihilism and now, they believe, boomers are screwing them out of the only remaining things in life they could enjoy: going to Starbucks for a latte and avocado toast and bullshitting on the patio, or going out to the bar for a beer and even more bullshitting.