The spotlight of Hollywood will soon shine on the Harvard psychology department.
“Friends” star Jennifer Aniston is set to portray Harvard Professor of Psychology Ellen J. Langer in a new movie about the professor’s life and studies, according to The Hollywood Reporter. . . .
“The research...means a great deal to me so the most exciting part is the possibility that it will reach a larger audience,” she wrote. . . . .
In the study, described in Langer’s 1989 book, “Mindfulness,” Langer placed a group of elderly men in a setting that convinced them the year was actually 1959.
The magazines, newspapers, and music the men saw and heard were all 20 years old and the men themselves were told to behave and talk as if it were 1959.
The men’s physical behavior followed their psychological convictions. Over the course of a week, signs of aging appeared to reverse and the men looked visibly younger. The subjects’ joints became more flexible, their posture straightened, and the lengths of their fingers, which typically shorten with age, actually increased. . . .
Langer said that Aniston, and others, may be attracted to her research because “the results are positive, hopeful, and very unusual.”
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