The midlife crisis in humans and other apes
The midlife crisis in humans and other apes
background briefing series, behavioural economics and wellbeing, policy briefing
Andrew Oswald, The CAGE Background Briefing Series No. 42, August 2015
Humans tend to go through midlife crises regardless of context. So too, it appears, do apes. This column draws on recent research showing apes’ midlives to be, like humans’, dogged by the same pattern of unhappiness.
Behavioural Economics and Wellbeing