As a follow-up to my post last week on affective forecasting, I see that the New York Times has a piece today on new research showing unexpectedly rapid patterns of recovery from acute grief experienced by older people who lose a spouse to natural causes. To be sure, the dynamics of recovery for crime victims are surely quite different than those experienced by widows and widowers, but the research does provide further support for the general proposition that the human psyche tends to be more resilient than we often assume.
