Does grumpiness have anything to do with the actual results of the study?
Despite the curmudgeonly stereotype cultivated by Victor Meldrew in the BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave, scientists found that older people view the world through rose-tinted spectacles, remembering the good times rather than the bad.
Researchers asked groups of 19 to 31-year-olds and 61 to 80-year-olds to view a series of photographs while analysing their brains’ activity.
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They found that in older people, there were stronger connections between regions of the brain that process emotions and those known to be important for forming memories. The trend was particularly strong for processing positive information.
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The results suggest that older people are much more likely to remember happy moments than their younger counterparts, the journal Cortex reports.
The reasoning is rather weak.
Do men get cranky as they get older because of their inborn temperament? Or because of their acquired character? Cicero gives one answer. Having had more experience than young people, old men are better acquainted with disappointment and failure, especially the flaws of others. Do people become more stubborn and set in their ways, especially how they react to life?
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