Larry Dossey, MD
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No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power of a change of mind. By deliberately changing their images of reality, people are changing the world.1
– Willis Harman, Institute of Noetic Sciences
Over the years, many of us periodically bump into experiments in healthcare that cause us to think, “This changes everything!” Such studies are convincing not only because of the empirical evidence they offer but also because they feel important to us personally. These findings strike a nerve. They often rattle our worldview, our fundamental concepts of how things work. They send us back to the drawing board of reality and make us re-think.
The Potted-Plant Study
This was my experience decades ago when I read a report that is often referred to as “the potted-plant study.” Published in 1976, the experiment was devised by social psychologists Ellen Langer and Judith Rodin.2 Langer and Rodin wanted to see if nursing-home residents could improve their well-being if they were given the responsibility of taking care of a […]
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