Pulling the Thread

Pulling the Thread

Thinking Our Way to Health (Ellen Langer)

Listen now (50 mins) | “But it's also okay not to get it right. You know, people mistakenly think that they want perfection, say you're playing golf and you wish you could get a hole..."

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Elise Loehnen
Sep 22, 2023
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If you’ve heard about a fascinating study that explores the power of the mind over the body, most likely it emerged out of the lab of Harvard Professor Ellen Langer—in fact, in 1981, Langer became the first woman ever to be tenured in psychology at Harvard. There, she stud…

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