Inboth the NunStudyandtheMillsCollegeresearchameasureofearlypositiveexpression, onethroughwriting and one through smiling, determined theeffect of this positivityoverthelifespan.
Sister Rogene Fox, an 81-year-old nun at Assisi Heights convent in Minnesota, was in the placebo group of the Mayo Clinic study after getting a painful vertebra fracture in 2007.