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美文01 What Is the Relationship Between Age and Happiness? 年龄与快乐有关系吗？人越老越不开心还是越老越快乐？人越老睡眠问题会越多吗？纽约一所大学的Arthur Stone领导了一项研究。根据对美国超过34万成年人的调查，他和他的团队得出了这个结论：人们在50岁后通常会变得更快乐，人越老越知足快乐，睡眠问题也会越少。 What Is the Relationship Between Age and Happiness? Are people less happy or more happy the older they get? ①If you answer more happy, then you are right, based on a study in 2008. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen. The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States in two thousand eight. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five. Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and tw