Can You Think Yourself Young?
Shannon Harvey
It's not often that a researcher can stand up in front of an audience at a Harvard Medical School conference packed with psychologists and physicians and ask, “Didn’t anyone tell you there’ll be a movie where Jennifer Aniston will be playing me?” That researcher is 69 year old Ellen Langer and her work on mindset and aging has captured the imagination of Hollywood with DreamWorks Studios reportedly commissioning the script for the movie in which Aniston will star. In 1981, Langer became the first woman ever to be tenured in psychology at Harvard, but it is her famous Counter Clockwise... Read full article »