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...relationships do matter. Although good sibling relationships seem to be the most beneficial kind, it really doesn’t matter whom you’re connecting with, as long as you’re connecting with someone. This was, in fact, the most unequivocal statement made by George Vaillant, the leader of the study: “That the only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people...
...grand existential epiphanies. (Does anybody actually read the American Journal of Psychology for fun?) The recent offerings instead glide seamlessly from real cognitive scientific results into life prescriptions of the kind traditionally proffered by fields like religion and literature. The current overseer of the Grant Study results, George Vaillant, himself studied not psychology but history and literature when he was at Harvard; indeed, it may be the literary quality of many psychological findings that makes them go down so smooth for a meaning-hungry public. In my tutorial this year, Freud was sandwiched as a social thinker between Durkheim...
...Perhaps this is the most important lesson of the study: the realization of just how elusive the elements that constitute a happy life really are. In one of his books, Vaillant writes of his subjects that “Their lives were too human for science, too beautiful for numbers, too sad for diagnosis and too immortal for bound journals.” It’s an oddly elegiac comment for a supposedly objective psychologist. Vaillant was especially affected by one of his patients, Case No. 47, who wrote that happiness for him was being able...
...Nestled just north of Alençon, the new factory site is a sign Appli'Plast and its 45 employees have cause for optimism. Since taking it over in 1995 as a bankrupt business creating plastic manufacturing molds, Lenoir and Appli'Plast manager Jacques Vaillant have transformed the company into a producer of plastic components and accessories. End clients include carmakers Ford, Renault, Nissan and Opel, as well as appliance manufacturers. Unlike many small- and medium-sized businesses in France, Appli'Plast refused all financial aid offered by local and regional governments, says Lenoir. It has also not exploited...
This statistic has caused great concern at UHS, as research by Harvard professors Graham Professor of Gender Studies Carol Gilligan and Professor of Psychiatry George E. Vaillant has shown that behaviors developed in early adulthood often become life-long habits...