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World's Longest Study on Happiness Still Going Strong After 88 Years
**Finding the secrets to a happy life can literally take a lifetime. After 88 years, the world's longest study on happiness is still going strong.**
**In 1938, scientists at Harvard University put together a study to compare the lives of two groups of young White men: one, a privileged cohort of Harvard students (including John F. Kennedy, before he was president), and the other, an underprivileged cohort of teenagers from one of Boston's poorest neighborhoods during the Great Depression.**
**Over the decades, the Harvard Study of Adult Development has added hundreds more participants to its roster, including women and children, and the research is still ongoing.**
**It is now arguably the longest study of adult life that's ever been conducted. It's taken several generations of scientists and four directors to keep the research going, and it has an extremely low dropout rate that is almost unheard of for a study this long.**
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**Finding the secrets to a happy life can literally take a lifetime. After 88 years, the world's longest study on happiness is still going strong.**
**In 1938, scientists at Harvard University put together a study to compare the lives of two groups of young White men: one, a privileged cohort of Harvard students (including John F. Kennedy, before he was president), and the other, an underprivileged cohort of teenagers from one of Boston's poorest neighborhoods during the Great Depression.**
**Over the decades, the Harvard Study of Adult Development has added hundreds more participants to its roster, including women and children, and the research is still ongoing.**
**It is now arguably the longest study of adult life that's ever been conducted. It's taken several generations of scientists and four directors to keep the research going, and it has an extremely low dropout rate that is almost unheard of for a study this long.**
#people
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