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The midlife crisis in humans and other apes

The midlife crisis in humans and other apes

Andrew Oswald, The CAGE Background Briefing Series No. 42, August 2015
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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