In addition to our own research, we relied, of course, on the efforts of the late Dr. Lewis Terman and his many associates and successors. They are far too numerous to identify, but we would especially like to note the efforts of Mrs. Eleanor Walker, formerly of Stanford University, who assisted us with many of our initial forays into the original archives, and the many scholars associated with Dr. Terman or his project, especially including Melita Oden, Dr. Robert R. Sears, Dr. Al Hastorf, and Dr. Ed Shneidman.
INDEX
Accidents, as cause of death
Acute myocardial infarction
Adherence effect
Age, lying about
Agreeableness
Alcohol use
Allen, Woody
Altruism
Alzheimer’s disease
Ambition
American Civil War
Animal companionship
Anxiety
Armstrong, Neil
Artistic occupations
Aspirin
Atomic Energy Commission
Average life expectancy
B vitamins
Bacterial infections
Bad luck
Ball, Lucille
Bereavement, effects of
Birth weight
Black bile
Blood pressure
Bodily humors
Body mass index (BMI)
Book of Exodus
Booth-Kewley, Stephanie
Boston Marathon
Bradbury, Lois Pratt
Bradbury, Norris
Breast-feeding
Brown, Scott
Burns, George
Cancer
Carbohydrates
Cardiovascular disease
Careers
Carnegie, Dale
Catastrophic thinking
Centenarians, optimism and
Chaney, Lon
Charitable activities
Cheerfulness
Child-bed fever
Childhood diseases
Childhood personality (see Personality)
Choleric personality
Cholesterol levels
Cigarette smoking
Clark, Kathleen
Clipp, Elizabeth
Cognitive therapy
College graduates
Comedians
Conscientiousness
Content analysis
Conventional occupations
Cornell University
Criqui, Michael
Cronbach, Lee
CT scans
Dead-end myths
Death, causes of. (see also Longevity; Violent death)
Death, of parent
Death certificates
Defoe, Daniel
Degenerative diseases
Depression
Diabetes
Diary
Discriminant function analysis
Disease-prone personality
Divorce
Dmytryk, Edward
Dose-response relationship
Drinking
Driving accidents
Dunedin, New Zealand
Early education
Eating disorders
Education
early entry
higher education
parental divorce and
skipping ahead
Elder, Glen
Emotional healing
Emotional sociability
Enterprising occupations
Exercise
Exorcism
Explanatory style
Extroversion
Faith healing
Family environment, in childhood. (see also Social relations)
Fat, dietary
Female orgasm
Femininity
Feverish diseases
Financial hardship
Fitness levels
Folic acid
Friendships (see Social relations)
Fungus infections
Galen
Gay men
Gender(see also Divorce; Marriage)
careers and
religiosity and
widowhood and
Gender diagnosticity
Gender roles
Genes
Germs
Gifted Child Grows Up, The: Twenty-five Years’ Follow-up of a Superior Group (Terman and Oden)
Goering, Hermann W.
Goldberg, Lew
Goodwin, Renee
Gratitude
Grumpiness
Guthrie, Woody
Happiness, health and
Harvard Study of Adult Development
Health care
Health psychology
Heart attacks (see Cardiovascular disease)
High blood pressure
Higher education
Hippocrates
Hobbies
Hodges, Ann
Holland, John
Homicide
Homocysteine
Homosexuality
Honesty
Hospitals, dangers of
Hume, David
Humor, sense of
Illness, overclassification of
Illusory optimism
Immune system
Impulsivity
Infant mortality
Infectious diseases
Instrumentality
Intercessory prayer
Internal Revenue Service
Investigative occupations
Jobs (see Careers)
Jocks
Jogging
Joint problems
Kelley, Douglas McGlashan
Kennedy, John F.
Kern, Margaret (Peggy)
Keys, Ancel
Kindergarten
King, Alan
Laughter
Lead
Lesbians
Lethality
Life-course epidemiology
Life expectancy, average
Life magazine
Life satisfaction
Life-span development
Lipkin, Yisroel (Rav Yisroel Salanter)
Lippa, Richard
Loneliness
Longevity. (see also Self-assessment quizzes)
careers and
catastrophic thinking and
divorce and
drinking and
education and (see Education)
happiness and health and
individual paths to
marriage and
personality and (see Personality)
physical activity and
religion and
smoking and
social relations and
traumatic experiences and
Lyubomirsky, Sonja
Magnetic therapy
Malnutrition
Manhattan Project
Marathon des Sables
Marriage
Masculinity
McCullough, Michael
Medical errors
Medical sociology
Medical treatments, cooperation with
Mediterranean diet
Melancholic personality
Melville, Herman
Melville, Malcolm
Mencken, H. L.
Meta-analysis
Metabolic equivalent (MET)
Mind over matter
Miracles
Moby-Dick (Melville)
Monroe, Marilyn
Moodiness
Mydans, Shelley Smith
Myths, dead-end
Naps
National Institutes of Health
National World War II Memorial
Nerds
Neuroticism
Neurotransmitter levels
Nun Study
Nutrition
Obesity
Oden, Melita Mary Hogg
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Oppenheimer, Jess
Optimism
illusory
Oregon Research Institute
Orgasm, female
Overspecialization of physicians
Pacific theater of World War II,
Parental death
Parental divorce (see Divorce)