Does positive thinking really work?

  You’ve heard the advice/clichés:   But do you believe they really work? Is it all just “Pollyanna” thinking?     Well, are you familiar with this fascinating experiment done by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer back in 1981? She and her colleagues piled two groups of men in their seventies and eighties into vans, drove […]

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