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The tendency to "catastrophize" about bad events, projecting them across many realms of life, foreshadows an untimely death decades later.

That is one of the findings of a U-M analysis exploring the link between mortality and the way a person habitually explains the cause or significance of bad events.

The analysis of the connection between explanatory style and early death is based on data from 1,182 subjects in the famous Terman Life-Cycle Study, started in 1921. Conducted by psychology Prof. Christopher Peterson and colleagues, including Howard Friedman at the University of California, Riverside, the analysis appears in the March issue of Psychological Science.

When the subjects were young adults, they were asked a series of questions about the bad events they had experienced so far, including any major disappointments, failures, losses, serious personal faults or character flaws.

Their answers were analyzed and coded to reflect......

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