Andy’s Quick Hits (240): Older People are Better at Responding to Distress

Andy Hab
2 min readJun 28, 2022

We may have some cliched ideas of older people like the grumpy or angry old man, or woman (but it is often a man).

However, research continually shows the opposite. Namely that people tend to mellow out with age. And another piece of research published in March this year also shows that older people respond better to distress. This is an…

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Andy Hab

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