Dr. Ellen Langer
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I'll go to the very present because there's so many things for us to talk about.
I did this study recently with my graduate student, Peter Ungle, and it's a study on wound healing.
Oh, this is interesting.
Now, so in order to test...
the one's mind, the degree to which your mind affects healing.
The physical body.
We had to inflict a wound.
I'm not sadistic.
And even if I were, the Human Subjects Committee is not going to let me.
So it's a minor wound.
Sure.
But it's a wound.
A little cut, a paper cut or something like that.
No, we used the Chinese cupping technique.
Okay.
And all we have are people in front of a clock.
It's like a bruise almost.
Yeah, exactly.
Unbeknownst to them, the clock is going twice as fast as real time, half as fast as real time, or real time.
The question we're asking is, does that bruise heal based on perceived time, which is the time the clock tells you, or real time?