If you have ever wondered what the key to living a long, successful and happy life is, Harvard researchers may just have your answer. “Good relationships keep us happier and healthier,” Dr. Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, said in a viral “TED Talk“ released in 2015.
The ongoing Harvard study is considered one of the world’s longest studies of adult life, having started in 1938 during the Great Depression.
If you have ever wondered what the key to living a long, successful and happy life is, Harvard researchers may just have your answer.
“Good relationships keep us happier and healthier,” Dr. Robert Waldinger, a psychiatrist and director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, said in a viral “TED Talk“ released in 2015.
“Our study has shown that the people who fared the best were the people who leaned into relationships, with family, with friends, with community,” Waldinger said.
The study aims to shed light on how “psychosocial variables and biological processes from earlier in life predict health and well-being in late life (80’s and 90’s), what aspects of childhood and adult experience predict the quality of intimate relationships in late life and how late-life marriage is linked with health and well-being,” according to the study’s website.
Waldinger is the fourth director of the study since its inception.