The Harvard Study of Adult Development: What We Learn from Tracking Lives Over 80 Years
Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 1-1:50pm
Dr. Waldinger is the Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, one of the longest longitudinal studies of adult life ever done. His research focuses on the lifetime predictors of healthy adult development, studying 2 groups of men recruited as teenagers who have been part of the study for 80 years. His 2015 TED talk about the study has been viewed by over 20 million people. During his seminar, Dr. Waldinger shared lessons and insights from the study, including findings that martial satisfaction has a protective effect on people’s mental health and that warm relationships contributed to longer and happier lives.
The seminar was entitled “The Harvard Study of Adult Development: What We Learn from Tracking Lives over 80 Years” and was attended by students, faculty and postdoctoral researchers.
Learn more about the study here.