Howard Friedman - The Longevity Project

Cardiovascular disease

Careers

Carnegie, Dale

Catastrophic thinking

Centenarians, optimism and

Chaney, Lon

Charitable activities

Cheerfulness

Child-bed fever

Childhood diseases

Childhood personality ( see Personality)

Choleric personality

Cholesterol levels

Cigarette smoking

Clark, Kathleen

Clipp, Elizabeth

Cognitive therapy

College graduates

Comedians

Conscientiousness

Content analysis

Conventional occupations

Cornell University

Criqui, Michael

Cronbach, Lee

CT scans

Dead-end myths

Death, causes of. ( see also Longevity; Violent death)

Death, of parent

Death certificates

Defoe, Daniel

Degenerative diseases

Depression

Diabetes

Diary

Discriminant function analysis

Disease-prone personality

Divorce

Dmytryk, Edward

Dose-response relationship

Drinking

Driving accidents

Dunedin, New Zealand

Early education

Eating disorders

Education

early entry

higher education

parental divorce and

skipping ahead

Elder, Glen

Emotional healing

Emotional sociability

Enterprising occupations

Exercise

Exorcism

Explanatory style

Extroversion

Faith healing

Family environment, in childhood. ( see also Social relations)

Fat, dietary

Female orgasm

Femininity

Feverish diseases

Financial hardship

Fitness levels

Folic acid

Friendships ( see Social relations)

Fungus infections

Galen

Gay men

Gender( see also Divorce; Marriage)

careers and

religiosity and

widowhood and

Gender diagnosticity

Gender roles

Genes

Germs

Gifted Child Grows Up, The: Twenty-five Years’ Follow-up of a Superior Group (Terman and Oden)

Goering, Hermann W.

Goldberg, Lew

Goodwin, Renee

Gratitude

Grumpiness

Guthrie, Woody

Happiness, health and

Harvard Study of Adult Development

Health care

Health psychology

Heart attacks ( see Cardiovascular disease)

High blood pressure

Higher education

Hippocrates

Hobbies

Hodges, Ann

Holland, John

Homicide

Homocysteine

Homosexuality

Honesty

Hospitals, dangers of

Hume, David

Humor, sense of

Illness, overclassification of

Illusory optimism

Immune system

Impulsivity

Infant mortality

Infectious diseases

Instrumentality

Intercessory prayer

Internal Revenue Service

Investigative occupations

Jobs ( see Careers)

Jocks

Jogging

Joint problems

Kelley, Douglas McGlashan

Kennedy, John F.

Kern, Margaret (Peggy)

Keys, Ancel

Kindergarten

King, Alan

Laughter

Lead

Lesbians

Lethality

Life-course epidemiology

Life expectancy, average

Life magazine

Life satisfaction

Life-span development

Lipkin, Yisroel (Rav Yisroel Salanter)

Lippa, Richard

Loneliness

Longevity. ( see also Self-assessment quizzes)

careers and

catastrophic thinking and

divorce and

drinking and

education and ( see Education)

happiness and health and

individual paths to

marriage and

personality and ( see Personality)

physical activity and

religion and

smoking and

social relations and

traumatic experiences and

Lyubomirsky, Sonja

Magnetic therapy

Malnutrition

Manhattan Project

Marathon des Sables

Marriage

Masculinity

McCullough, Michael

Medical errors

Medical sociology

Medical treatments, cooperation with

Mediterranean diet

Melancholic personality

Melville, Herman

Melville, Malcolm

Mencken, H. L.

Meta-analysis

Metabolic equivalent (MET)

Mind over matter

Miracles

Moby-Dick (Melville)

Monroe, Marilyn

Moodiness

Mydans, Shelley Smith

Myths, dead-end

Naps

National Institutes of Health

National World War II Memorial

Nerds

Neuroticism

Neurotransmitter levels

Nun Study

Nutrition

Obesity

Oden, Melita Mary Hogg

Oppenheimer, J. Robert

Oppenheimer, Jess

Optimism

illusory

Oregon Research Institute

Orgasm, female

Overspecialization of physicians

Pacific theater of World War II,

Parental death

Parental divorce ( see Divorce)

Parenting decisions

Pasteur, Louis

Paxil

Perfectionism

Persistence ( see Conscientiousness)

Personality

agreeableness

battle roles and

careers and

cheerfulness

chronic disease and

conscientiousness

disease-prone

marriage satisfaction and

moodiness

neurotic

perfectionism

resilient

self-assessment

self-healing

sociability

suicide and

widowhood and

worrying

Person-centered focus

Perturbation

Pessimism

Pesticides

Peterson, Chris

Pets

Pharmaceutical companies

Phlegm

Phlegmatic personality

Physical activity

Physicians, overspecialization of

Placebos

Playtime

Polypills

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Prayer

Prehypertension

Prenatal alcohol exposure

Promise of Youth, The (Terman)

Prozac

Prudence ( see Conscientiousness)

Radioactivity

Reading

Realistic occupations

Red Cross

Regrets

Reliability

Religion

Remarriage

Research traps and biases

Resilience

Responsibility

Rheumatism

Risky families

Rockefeller University

Running

Sadness

Salinger, J. D.

Sanguine personality

School ( see Education)

School Sisters of Notre Dame

Schwartz, Joseph

Sciatica

Seldin, Dan

Self-assessment quizzes

catastrophizing

conscientiousness

early school

emotional sociability

job passion and accomplishment

life satisfaction

marital happiness

masculinity and femininity

neuroticism

physical activity

religiosity

sociability

social support networks

traumatic experiences

Self-control

Self-criticism

Self-healing personality

Self-interest research biases

Self-report biases

Seligman, Martin

Semmelweis, Ignaz

Serotonin

Sexual activity and satisfaction

Sexual orientation

Sexual promiscuity

Shneidman, Edwin

Shyness

Singlehood

Sleep disruptions

Smoking

Snow, C. P.

Snowdon, David

Sociability

emotional

Social occupations

Social Readjustment Rating Scale

Social relations

Socioeconomic status

Stanford University

Steadily married group

Stress

Strokes ( see Cardiovascular disease)

Substance abuse

Sugar pills

Suicide

Supernatural forces

Taga, Keiko

Television viewing

Ten Commandments

Terman, Anna Belle Minton

Terman, Lewis

Thought stopping and replacement

Time magazine

Tinker Bell Principle

Tomlinson-Keasey, Carol

Toxins, exposure to

Traumatic experiences

Truthfulness

Tuberculosis

Tucker, Joan

Twain, Mark

Type A behavior pattern

Vaccines

Vaillant, George

Veterans

Vie, Loryana