Grant Study

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The Grant Study (English full name: Grant Study of Adult Development , " Grant Study of Adult Development ") is a long-term study that has been carried out since 1938 at Harvard Medical School , the medical school of Harvard University . The purpose of the study is to examine the lifestyle of a sample of men. It bears the name of an entrepreneur who financed it from 1937 to 1947.

A total of 268 male students who studied at Harvard University from 1939 to 1942 were selected for the study. You have been and will be questioned and medically examined at regular intervals. Of the original subjects, 19 are still alive (as of April 2017), but the study has now been expanded to include descendants of the original subjects and - as part of the parallel Glueck study - to adolescents who grew up in downtown Boston .

Some participants in the study later became known independently, such as the US President John F. Kennedy and the journalist Ben Bradlee . The "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski , who studied at Harvard from 1958, was not a subject in the Grant or Glueck studies, but in a further experiment carried out there by the psychologist Henry A. Murray .

further reading

George E. Vaillant: Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.

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  1. ↑ https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/48WRX9
  2. ↑ George E. Vaillant: Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study . Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012, p. 55.
  3. ↑ https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/48WRX9
  4. ↑ https://www.spiegel.de/gesundheit/psychologie/grant-studie-wie-ein-zufriedenes-leben-gelingt-a-851729.html
  5. ↑ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy -life /
  6. ↑ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/06/-i-haven-t-been-unhappy-in-my-life/307458/
  7. ↑ https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-unabomber-at-harvard