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In 1979, a Harvard psychologist sent eight elderly men back in time and their bodies followed.
— Big Brain Psychology (@BigBrainPsych) April 10, 2026
Back in the 1970s, psychologist @ellenjl ran one of the most provocative experiments in the history of psychology. She invited eight men in their late 70s and early 80s to spend a week… pic.twitter.com/s7Lgip6eJo
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Interesting. I'd like to find the study to look over it and also see if results were reproducible in others since the initial study.
ReplyDeleteSome of those old guys turned back into fetuses and crawled into surrogate uteruses.
DeleteNot the original study, but probably a good place to start for more info: Mindfulness—the unconventional research of psychologist Ellen Langer. Interestingly, the tweet gets the year wrong--it was 1981, not 1979. Weird thing to mess up, to be honest.
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