Chicago MindsetChicago baby-boomers would most likely agree with Thomas E. Barry, vice president for executive affairs and professor of marketing that its a bit trite, but “you’re as old as you feel,”   according to an article in the Pittsburg Post Gazette.

He’s got the research to back that up.

Mr. Barry and a colleague from Florida Gulf Coast University studied college-educated Japanese 55 years old and above. They found those who were psychologically younger had more positive attitudes toward life satisfaction and aging than those whose “cognitive ages” were older.

Four factors went into determining a person’s cognitive age: health and how people feel; what chronological age they look; how engaged they are socially; and their interests and hobbies