are there personality traits related to longevity
For more on the phenomenon, and other insights into longevity, check out The Longevity Project here. In a study published this past May in the journal Aging, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Yeshiva University pinpointed several personality traits linked to a longer lifespan.
Photo by Melanie Stetson Freeman/Christian Science Monitor/Getty Images. Read the rest of Laura Helmuth's series on longevity. Thereâs an oddly persistent myth that people have always had a good chance of living to a ripe old age if they could just survive childhood.