AGING WELL: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development
George E. Vaillant, . . Little, Brown, $24.95 (384pp) ISBN 978-0-316-98936-7
This groundbreaking sociological analysis is based on three research projects that followed over 800 people from their adolescence through old age. Subjects were drawn from the Harvard Grant study of white males, the Inner City study of non-delinquent males and the Terman Women study of gifted females, begun respectively in 1921, 1930 and 1911. In all three studies, subjects were interviewed at regular intervals over time, a design that prevented observations from being skewed by the distortions of memory and allowed for analyses that distinguished effect from cause. Vaillant (
Reviewed on: 11/05/2001
Genre: Nonfiction
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