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In 1978, Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychologist, conducted an important study.

She gave houseplants to two groups of nursing home residents.

One group was told that they were responsible for keeping that

plant alive and that they had control over their daily schedule. The other group was told that the

staff would take care of their plant and that they were not given choices regarding their daily

schedule.

Well, after 18 months, twice as many people in the group given responsibility for their

plan and schedule were still alive as the other group.

Langer took this as evidence that current biomedical models which views the mind and body

as separate was wrong.

In 1981, she conducted another experiment to examine further the mind's impact on the body.

She and a group of graduate students designed the interior of a building to reflect the styles and conditions of the year 1959.

Scattered about were black and white TVs, vintage furniture, magazines, and books from the 1950s.

This structure would be a home for magazines and books from the 1950s.

This structure would be a home for a group of eight men,

all over 70 years of age, for five days.

When these men arrived at the building,

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