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Optimism could help you live longer, new study says.

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| July 27, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Philadelphia Inquirer. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Aparna Surendran

Think positive, because it could postpone death.

If this news elicits a "so what?" response, you might want to think again: The latest study confirms previous research, and found an even greater impact.

In any event, according to the findings to be released Monday, research subjects with positive perceptions of their aging processes lived an average 7 { years longer than those with a negative self-perception.

The 660 people studied were age 50 or over at the time of questioning in 1975 by Miami University researchers in Oxford, Ohio. They were asked a variety of questions, five of them related to aging. Their…

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