Having A Negative Outlook On Aging Can Actually Age People Faster
A new study has shown that people who believe that they are getting old age faster than those with a youthful mindset. Indeed, losing your memory and lessening your senses could very well become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
University of Toronto psychology professor and lead author of the study Alison Chasteen said, “People’s feelings about getting older influence our sensory and cognitive functions. The worse your view of aging, the worse you tend to feel about your own abilities, and the worse you perform.”
Previously, Chasteen focused her research on aging’s effect on performance, specifically, how it affects memory and hearing. Only recently has she started examining how an aging person feels about getting older. In the recent study, Chasteen wanted to put the three variables of aging...