Big Picture Science – Raising the Minimum Age: Ellen Langer / Mind and Time

Ellen Langer / Mind and Time
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Part 4 of Raising the Minimum Age, featuring Ellen Langerr, professor of Psychology at Harvard University and author of Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility, describing an experiment in the 70s and 80s wherein she took 8 men and put them in an environment that replicated 1959, when they would have been 20 years younger. They were told to put their minds in that year – and she wanted to see if their bodies would follow.

Tagged as: aging, psychology