Can you predict your own death-may be not, but your friends know .
How long UR going to live can accurately predicted at early age when UR in college.
It’s no secret that a person’s personality traits can have an impact on
health. Traits such as depression and anger have been linked to an
increased risk of various diseases and health concerns, including an
early death. Men who are conscientious are more likely to eat right,
stick with an exercise routine and avoid risks, such as driving without a
seat belt. Women who are emotionally stable may be better at fighting
off anger, anxiety and depression.
“Our study shows that people are able to observe and rate a friend’s
personality accurately enough to predict early mortality decades down
the road,” . “It suggests that people are able to see
important characteristics related to health even when their friends
were, for the most part, healthy and many years from death.
There are two potential reasons for the superiority of peer ratings
over self ratings .“First, friends may see something that
you miss; they may have some insight that you do not. Second, because
people have multiple friends, we are able to average the idiosyncrasies
of any one friend to obtain a more reliable assessment of personality.
With self reports, people may be biased or miss certain aspects of
themselves and we are not able to counteract that because there is only
one you, only one self-report.”
