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Tuesday, August 8, 2023, 4:30pm
By Colleen Leahy

Research has found that on average, people over 40 think of themselves as 20 percent younger than they actually are. A journalist explains why this discrepancy between the age someone is in their mind -- also known as subjective age -- and their actual chronological age is so common. 

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