Midlife crises are a common plot device in films, TV shows, and books. Like most psychological phenomena, though, they don’t always get it quite right. Hosted by: Brit Garner ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/global_20160825_happiness_stress_age.pdf https://www.dartmouth.edu/~blnchflr/papers/welbbeingssm.pdf https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/faculty-news/2016/january/up-not-down---the-rise-and-rise-of-happiness https://hbr.org/2015/04/why-so-many-of-us-experience-a-midlife-crisis https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/midlife-crisis-myth http://www.midus.wisc.edu/findings/pdfs/103.pdf http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr03/researchers.aspx https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201207/the-top-10-myths-about-the-midlife-crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-29/is-the-midlife-crisis-real-economists-and-psychologists-can-t-agree http://www.businessinsider.com/midlife-crisis-controversial-study-2017-9 http://www.nber.org/papers/w23724 http://www.pnas.org/content/109/49/19949.short https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/161382/1/dp10759.pdf https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170531092500.htm https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/half-dead-men-and-the-mid-life-crisis/ https://www.simplypsychology.org/Erik-Erikson.html http://humangrowth.tripod.com/id3.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/870922