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Langer and Rodin (1976) as well as Schultz (1976) conducted field experiments in which nursing home residents were provided more control over their situations. Unlike Langer and Rodin, however, Schultz and Hanusa (1978) later found that those elderly participants who had earlier been allowed to schedule visits with college students actually had more health problems and higher mortality rates than those participants who had never had control over the visits. Explain these apparently contradictory findings.

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