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" As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.' "

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" Beliefs about how lying looks are plentiful and often contradictory: depending on whom you choose to believe, liars can be detected because they fidget a lot, hold very still, cross their legs, cross their arms, look up, look down, make eye contact or fail to make eye contact. "

" Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink. "

" Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits. "

" The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years. "

" In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin. "

" There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle. "

" I'm always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being young has always meant being self-absorbed; in many ways, that's what youth is for. "

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Generation

History

" The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications. "

" I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband. "

" To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life. "

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Own

End

" I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things and go places - people with whom to have a few crazy, memorable bonding adventures. "

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Regret

True

" In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities. "

" Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety. "

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Depression

" The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought. "

" Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies. "

" Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps. "

" The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random. "

" The chance you passed up or missed could have had any number of different outcomes, and it's easy to fantasize about how much better every one of those outcomes would have been. "

" Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough. "

" Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway. "

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Husband

" The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth. "

" The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. "

" Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do. "

" If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general. "

" Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories. "

" Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger. "

" For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill. "

" The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered. "

" Through social media, young people are constantly being pinged about a whole slew of potentially better matches or social activities. "