当你变老时发生的好事

Forget wrinkles and gray hair. There are lots of reasons to celebrate each time you add a candle to your birthday cake. You gain wisdom and many other benefits with age.

忘掉皱纹和白发。每次你在生日蛋糕上放一支蜡烛都有很多理由庆祝。随着年龄的增长，你会获得智慧和许多其他好处。

Here's a look at just a few of the good things that come with growing older.

以下是一些随着年龄增长而来的好事情。

An ability to manage social conflicts

管理社会冲突的能力

Researchers at the University of Michigan put this to the test. For their study published in the journal PNAS, they asked 200 participants to read "Dear Abby" letters and offer up their best advice. People in their 60s were better than their younger counterparts at coming up with multiple outcomes for a social conflict and were better at imagining different points of view, while preferring solutions that involved compromise.

密歇根大学的研究人员对此进行了测试。为了发表在《美国国家科学院院刊》上的这项研究，他们让200名参与者阅读“亲爱的艾比”的信件，并给出他们最好的建议。与年轻人相比，60多岁的人更善于为社会冲突想出多种结果，也更善于设想不同的观点，同时更喜欢妥协的解决方案。

From fewer headaches to greater self-esteem, there's more to look forward to with each added year than you might realize. (Photo: Tom Wang/Shutterstock)

An encyclopedic knowledge

百科知识

Psychologists often refer to two main types of intelligence: fluid and crystallized. Fluid intelligence is someone's ability to solve problems, learn new things and use logical thinking in unfamiliar situations.Crystallized intelligence, however, is based on what you've learned in the past. It makes use of information and skills you've already mastered.

心理学家经常提到两种主要的智力类型:可变智力和固化智力。可变智力是指一个人在不熟悉的情况下解决问题、学习新事物和运用逻辑思维的能力。然而，固化智力是建立在你过去所学的基础上的。它利用你已经掌握的信息和技能。

A greater sense of well-being

更大的幸福感

Older people are usually happier because they have less anxiety and stress. (Photo: Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock)

Older people often have increased financial well-being, so that takes the monetary element out of the stress equation. In addition, they tend to let go of negative emotions and focus on positive events.

老年人的经济状况往往更好，所以这就把金钱因素从压力方程中去掉了。此外，他们倾向于释放消极情绪，专注于积极的事情。

An immunity window

一个免疫窗口

Little kids get sick all the time. They pass colds around at school and catch everything because their growing immune systems are still developing. The good news is that as you age, your adult immune system recognizes these microbes as they invade your body and forms an "immune memory."

小孩子总是生病。他们在学校里传播感冒并感染一切，因为他们不断增长的免疫系统还在发育。好消息是，随着年龄的增长，当这些微生物侵入你的身体时，你的成年免疫系统会识别它们，形成一种“免疫记忆”。

Becoming more agreeable

变得更容易赞同他人

People get less grumpy as they age. (Photo: Olena Yakobchuk/Shutterstock)

Forget about getting older and crankier. As you age, there's a good chance you'll become more agreeable and easier to get along with.This even happened among men, which debunks the concept of "grumpy old men," said lead researcher and psychologist Sanjay Srivastava, Ph.D.

忘掉变老和变古怪吧。随着年龄的增长，你很有可能变得更随和，更容易相处。研究负责人、心理学家桑贾伊·斯里瓦斯塔瓦博士说，这种情况甚至在男性中也发生过，这就揭穿了“脾气暴躁的老人”的概念。

Fewer migraines

更少的偏头痛

Only 10% of women and 5% of men over 70 still report migraines, reports WebMD. And if you still have a migraine then, it may come without actually headache pain. As people get older, some may only experience migraines as visual or sensory disturbances without any pain.

据WebMD报道，在70岁以上的人群中，只有10%的女性和5%的男性仍然患有偏头痛。如果你仍然有偏头痛，那么它可能不是真正的头痛。随着人们年龄的增长，一些人可能只经历偏头痛作为视觉或感觉障碍没有任何疼痛。

Less sweat

少汗

You won't be as sweaty when you exercise. (Photo: kudla/Shutterstock)

A study in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that women in their 20s sweat more than women in their 50s and 60s. Researchers attributed the difference to either "a diminished response of the sweat glands to central and/or peripheral stimuli" or "an age-related structural alteration in the eccrine glands or surrounding skin cells."

发表在《应用生理学杂志》上的一项研究发现，二十多岁的女性比五六十岁的女性出汗更多。研究人员将这种差异归因于“汗腺对中枢和/或周边刺激的反应减弱”，或者“汗腺或周围皮肤细胞的年龄相关结构改变”。

Change in self-esteem

自尊心改变

Long gone is the insecurity of youth. Self-esteem is highest right around age 60, research finds.That self-confidence stays strong for about a decade, then drops around age 90, often because of health reasons.

青春的不安全感早已荡然无存。研究发现，60岁左右的人自尊心最强。这种自信会持续10年左右，然后在90岁左右下降，通常是因为健康原因。