# Professor Adam Alter's joint research on ages ending in nine is highlighted

1 Faculty News August 15, 2016 ![Yahoo logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/yahoo.jpg?itok=UzShvj6e)>

Excerpt from [Yahoo News](https://www.yahoo.com/style/this-is-the-age-when-youre-most-likely-to-cheat-130953921.html) -- "[Adam L. Alter](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/adam-alter) and Hal E. Hershfield from New York University and UCLA, respectively, found across six studies that at the end of a decade, people become more preoccupied with aging and worries about life’s meaningfulness. The researchers said that such thoughts lead to behaviors that 'suggest a search for, or a crisis of meaning.'"

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