Academy Award Winners Live Longer

This article was taken from a blog by Dr. Gad Saad in Psychology Today and found interesting. Dr. Saad is an evolutionary behavioral scientist who has published over 40 scientific articles in numerous disciplines including in marketing, consumer behavior, advertising, medicine, economics, and bibliometrics. The epidemiologist Donald Redelmeier and his coauthor Sheldon Singh published a paper in 2001 in the Annals of Internal Medicine wherein they contrasted the life expectancy of academy award winners, academy award nominees who lost, and a control group of actors and actresses who had appeared in the same films. Incredibly, they found that winners lived 3.6 years longer than the nominees, and 3.9 years longer than the control group.

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