ABSTRACT
Let me begin with a little thought experiment. Imagine that due to some mysterious process, you have become a rather old person overnight. Looking into the mirror, you find your bodily appearance dramatically changed, and during the further course of the day, you reluctantly realize noticeable losses in vision, memory, and in other cherished functions. Obviously, this is a quite aversive scenario for most of us. In fact, people are willing to invest much money and effort to slow down the clocks that pace the processes of aging. Somewhat paradoxically, it seems that people try to falsify a deficit model of aging because they believe in it.
