Increasing longevity and life satisfaction: is there a catch to living longer?

IncreasIng ImplIcIt lIfe satIsfactIon

We carried out 3 studies in which methods to increase implicit life satisfaction in collectivist participants were investigated. In Study 1, participants were instructed to recall their day from a positive perspective, each day for a total of 17 days. While participants explicitly rated their lives as being less negative, this did not result in implicit life satisfaction changes in those partic...

COMPACT predictions: is there a catch?

There a Catch? Lewis et al. reported a retrospective evaluation of COMPACT predictions of rodent carcinogenicity for 44 chemicals evaluated in long-term bioassays by the National Toxicology Program (EHP 103:178-184). They concluded that COMPACT performed quite well. I was surprised to read this, because I had seen the published COMPACT carcinogenicity predictions regarding these chemicals (1) a...

Life satisfaction, ethnicity and neighbourhoods: Is there an effect of neighbourhood ethnic composition on life satisfaction?

Immigrants and ethnic minorities tend to have lower life satisfaction than majority populations. However, current understanding of the drivers of these gaps is limited. Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of ethnic minorities and matched neighbourhood characteristics, we test whether first and second generation minorities experience lower life satisfaction once ...

For cancers there is more to life than a longer G-strand.

There is more than one way to catch a bug.

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