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Can Your Personality Change After 60? A New Study Has Answers

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Can Your Personality Change After 60? A New Study Has Answers

"Our study results somewhat contradict the adage that ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.'"

Ageing doesn’t always mean decline, particularly if you don’t expect it to. One study involving more than 11,000 participants found that almost half improved either their physical or mental capacity after their 65th birthday; people who improved on one or both metrics were likelier to have a positive view of ageing.

But what about personality?

A paper published in the journal Communications Psychology put 165........

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