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INTRODUCTION
The Amazing Study
Do You Fit the Bill? Assess Yourself
The “Termanators”
CHAPTER 1
Personality and Long Life
Individual Pathways
Backward Thinking?
Back to the Beginning
Personality Is Not Set in Stone
Personality Detectives on the Case
CHAPTER 2
Long Live the Prudent and Persistent
Assess Yourself
Conscientious Adults: Then and Now
Revenge of the Virtuous
Why Do the Conscientious Stay Healthier and Live Longer?
In and Out of Conscientiousness
Does It Generalize?
Personality and Chronic Disease
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 3
Friendly and Convivial
The Scientist-Businessman Continuum
Sociability and Specific Behaviors
Another Kind of Sociability
Why Ask Who Lives Longest
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 4
Happiness and Health?
The Cheerful Ones
Merriment and Unhealthy Behavior
The Tinker Bell Principle
Illusory Optimism and Those Most Senior of Citizens
Are Neurotic Individuals Unhealthy?
When It’s Okay to Worry
Are You Agreeable?
Shared Paths to Health and Happiness
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 5
Catastrophic Thinking
Chicken Little Meets Content Analysis
Catastrophizing and Mortality
Catastrophizing-Related Ailments: How They Died
The Mysterious End of Douglas Kelley
The Terman Women Who Ended It All
Terman Men Who Shot Themselves
Thoughts in Old Age
Any Regrets?
Conscientiousness and Catastrophizing
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 6
Childhood and School Days
Breast-Feeding
Early Education
Head Start?
What About Skipping Ahead?
Playtime
Higher Education
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 7
Parental Divorce
Parental Divorce and Longevity
Living Through Divorce, Dying Young
The Real Problem with Parental Divorce
History Repeats Itself
Rising from the Ashes?
The Power of Bouncing Back
Resilient Temperaments
Divorce Rates Today
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 8
Running for Their Lives
The Exercise Thermometer
Varieties of Fitness
Active Children, Active Adults?
METs (Activity) Across the Decades
Physical Activity and Long Life
The Truth About Jogging
Marathonlessness Is Not a Disease
The Risk Factor Is Not the Disease
Aspirin, Activity, and the Heart: How to Generalize
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 9
To Sickness or to Health?
True or False: Get Married, Live Longer?
Methodology and Marital Madness
Marital History
Are You Remarried, Steadily Married, Divorced, or Steadily Single?
Which Men Lived Longest?
Which Women Lived Longest?
Personality, Marriage, Divorce, and Longevity
Recovery After a Second Marriage
Happiness, Marriage, and Health
Sexual Activity and Satisfaction
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 10
Careers, Success, and Satisfaction
Stress Is Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Healthy Careers?
Career Success
Is Nuclear Physics Easy and Relaxing?
Studying Success and Longevity
The Press to Success Doesn’t Kill You, It Makes You Stronger
Why the Successful Live Longer
The Real Source of Workplace Stress
What About the Women?
Mismatching
Aging, Productivity, and Health
But Were They Happy?
Is Education the Key?
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 11
Long Life Meets the Afterlife
Does Prayer Work?
Religious Involvement Throughout Life
Trajectories of the Religious Women Who Lived Long
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 12
Confidants, Networks, and the Power of Social Life
Social Butterflies
Social Support and Long Life
Do the Good Die Young?
Are Pets Truly Substitute Friends?
Social Life and Misconceptions about Life Expectancy
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 13
The Gender Gap in Long Life
Measuring Masculinity and Femininity
Masculine and Feminine Men
Masculine and Feminine Women
Femininity and Long Life
Social Ties and Gender
Men’s Health After Loss
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 14
The Toll of War and Trauma
War and Stress
Desk Jockeys vs. Infantrymen: The Effects of Stressful War Service
Where You Fight Your Battles
Personality and Battle Roles: The Surprising Selection
Why Is Traumatic Stress Harmful?
Depression and Heart Disease
Women and War Trauma
Stress and Genes
The Fit with Other Veterans Studies
What It Means for You: Guideposts to Health and Long Life
CHAPTER 15
Individual Paths to Health and Long Life
Polypills: The Joke’s on Us
Secrets of the Body
Staying Healthy, Living Long: The Paths to Long Life
Which Path?
The Persistent, Consequential, and Social Life
EPILOGUE
Long Life and Public Health
Wrong Ideas About Health
Why Lists Don’t Work So Well
Dr. Terman’s Biases
The Mental-Physical Health Connection
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
RESEARCH COLLABORATORS
INDEX
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