"The Roseto Effect" And "Growing Young"

Greetings,

Ever since the early '70s when I learned of "The Roseto Effect" while studying at the University of Cincinnati, I have considered the underlying research to be exceedingly important - socially, politically, medically, psychologically, and as a lodestar guide to the maintenance of Public Health. 

The following interview, broadcast by NPR's "Here and Now," brings you "up to speed" and "up to date."

"Growing Young": Show Kindness And Volunteer More: New Book Says Improving Human Connections Improves Health And Lengthens Life

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/01/06/live-long-friendship-kindness-book

Roseto Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseto_effect

This epochal study of an Italian immigrant community in Roseto, Pennsylvania, vitiates the psycho-political philosophy under-girding "Rugged Individualism."

Pax et amor

Alan