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Does Everyone Have a 'Midlife Crisis'?

2018

Midlife crises are a common plot device in films, TV shows, and books. Like most psychological phenomena, though, they don’t always get it quite right.

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Life Begins at 40: The Biological and Cultural Roots of the Midlife Crisis | The Royal Society

In this lecture, Professor Mark Jackson, winner of the 2018 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal, explores a rich range of historical sources to argue that the midlife crisis emerged as a result of demographic changes, new biological accounts of ageing, and deepening anxieties about economic decline,...

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2019
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