Roy Baumeister
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American social psychologist, born 16 May 1953, known for work on the self, self-control, belongingness and free will; taught at Case Western Reserve…
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Aging has two new dangers that emerged from changes in society: outliving your money and outliving your brain (opens korrents.com)
“But just in the past couple decades, aging has developed two new dangers. Both have only emerged as a result of fundamental changes in society. In a nutshell, the two new threats are outliving your money, and outliving…”
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As people live longer by caring for their bodies, dementia will claim larger and larger numbers (opens korrents.com)
“When most people died before 70, only a small and unfortunate minority got dementia. But now that people take better care of their bodies, such that increasing numbers manage to live until 90 or 100, dementia will…”
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Perhaps the optimal outcome for a modern democracy is ongoing alternation in power between left and right (opens korrents.com)
“Instead of thinking that one is always right and the other always wrong, perhaps the optimal outcome for a modern democracy is an ongoing alternation in power between the left and the right.”
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Aging has two new dangers that emerged from changes in society: outliving your money and outliving your brain (opens korrents.com)