In the Hotel Experiment by Crum and Langer, Half the Participants

question 684

True/False

In the hotel experiment by Crum and Langer, half the participants were led to believe they were in "poor" physical and mental condition and the other half were led to believe they were in "excellent" physical and mental condition.

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