Journal of Research in Personality.Chopik said the researchers looked at life events such as marriage, divorce, a new job, retirement, changes in health and loss of a partner, parent or child.“Counterintuitively — and most surprising — we found that really hard things like deaths and divorce really didn’t change a person’s outlook on the future,” Chopik said.“This shows that a lot of people likely subscribe to the ‘life is short’ mantra and realize they should focus on things that make them happy and maintain emotional balance.”Chopik explained that regardless of life’s good and bad circumstances, from the time people are 15 to almost 60 or 70, they become more and more optimistic.“There’s a massive stretch of life during which you keep.
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