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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Want to Live Longer? Stop Worrying


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People who are more outgoing, agreeable, and less neurotic tend to live longer, according to an April 2009 study of the personality traits of centenarians.

Being affable translates to a robust social circle (above, elderly men converse over a glass of wine in France)—one of the common threads among the long-lived.

Photograph by Dean Conger