One Benefit of Aging? You'll Have Fewer Regrets

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Few emotions are as nagging as regret—the mourning and melancholy that comes from fearing you picked the wrong mate, pursued the wrong career, or ended a marriage that you maybe could have saved. Over the course of a lifetime, there are a lot of such hinge points. It would seem to follow that the longer you live, the more regrets you’ll have. But a new study published in the journal Emotion finds that the opposite is actually true: older people have fewer regrets than...