Ellen Langer
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American psychologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ellen Jane Langer is an American professor of psychology at Harvard University; in 1981, she became the first woman ever to be tenured in psychology at Harvard. Langer studies the illusion of control, decision-making, aging, and mindfulness theory. Her most influential work is Counterclockwise, published in 2009, which answers questions about aging from her research and interest in the particulars of aging across the nation.
Ellen Langer's Published Works
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Published Works
- The illusion of control. (1975) (1839)
- The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: a field experiment in an institutional setting. (1976) (1533)
- The Construct of Mindfulness (2000) (956)
- Heads I win, tails it's chance: The illusion of control as a function of the sequence of outcomes in a purely chance task. (1975) (792)
- The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action: The Role of "Placebic" Information in Interpersonal Interaction (1978) (720)
- Long-term effects of a control-relevant intervention with the institutionalized aged. (1977) (672)
- Minding Matters: The Consequences of Mindlessness–Mindfulness (1989) (486)
- The power of mindful learning (1997) (433)
- Reduction of psychological stress in surgical patients (1975) (415)
- Transcendental meditation, mindfulness, and longevity: an experimental study with the elderly. (1989) (374)
- Matters of mind: Mindfulness/mindlessness in perspective (1992) (373)
- The Psychology Of Control (1983) (335)
- Aging Labels: The Decline of Control and the Fall of Self‐Esteem (1980) (309)
- Mindfulness and self-acceptance (2006) (297)
- Aging free from negative stereotypes: successful memory in China and among the American deaf. (1994) (295)
- Forecasting the onset and course of mental illness with Twitter data (2016) (260)
- A patient by any other name--clinician group difference in labeling bias. (1974) (259)
- The prevention of mindlessness. (1987) (254)
- The semantics of asking a favor: How to succeed in getting help without really dying. (1972) (250)
- When practice makes imperfect: debilitating effects of overlearning. (1979) (236)
- Mindful Learning (2000) (234)
- Mindfulness and Marital Satisfaction (2005) (226)
- Stigma, Staring, and Discomfort: A Novel-Stimulus Hypothesis. (1976) (202)
- Crowding and cognitive control. (1977) (196)
- Mindfulness Research and the Future (2000) (189)
- Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility (2009) (188)
- A Mindful Education (1993) (183)
- Mind-set Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect (2007) (174)
- Higher stages of human development : perspectives on adult growth (1990) (155)
- Frequent Social Comparisons and Destructive Emotions and Behaviors: The Dark Side of Social Comparisons (2006) (153)
- Induced Disability in Nursing Home Patients: A Controlled Trial (1982) (149)
- On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity (2005) (142)
- Aging free from negative stereotypes: successful memory in China and among the American deaf (1994) (141)
- The Psychology of Chance (1977) (137)
- Premature cognitive commitment. (1981) (129)
- Beliefs, Reasoning and Decision-making: Psycho-logic in Honor of Bob Abelson (1994) (122)
- Decreasing prejudice by increasing discrimination. (1985) (121)
- Mindful and Masculine: Freeing Women Leaders From the Constraints of Gender Roles (2000) (118)
- Horizontal Hostility; Relations Between Similar Minority Groups (1999) (111)
- Rethinking the Role of Thought in Social Interaction (2018) (103)
- Self-induced dependence. (1978) (97)
- The Development and Validation of the Langer Mindfulness Scale - Enabling a Socio-Cognitive Perspective of Mindfulness in Organizational Contexts (2012) (96)
- Role of mindlessness in the perception of deviance. (1980) (89)
- Conditional teaching and mindful learning: The role of uncertainty in education (1989) (88)
- Environmental determinants of memory improvement in late adulthood. (1979) (87)
- Reducing Stereotyping Through Mindfulness: Effects on Automatic Stereotype-Activated Behaviors (2008) (86)
- Staring and approach: An interpretation of the stare as a nonspecific activator. (1976) (80)
- The Wiley Blackwell handbook of mindfulness (2014) (79)
- Perceived Control and Mindfulness: Implications for Clinical Practice. (2016) (71)
- Mindful multitasking: The relationship between mindful flexibility and media multitasking (2012) (66)
- The illusion of calculated decisions. (1994) (58)
- The Role of Mindlessness in a Typical Social Psychological Experiment (1979) (57)
- The Effect of Mindfulness on Heart Rate Control (2009) (57)
- Horizontal Hostility: Multiple Minority Groups and Differentiation from the Mainstream (2006) (55)
- Believing Is Seeing (2010) (55)
- When Thinking Disrupts Intellectual Performance (1981) (55)
- Orchestral performance and the footprint of mindfulness (2009) (50)
- Mindfulness, physical impairment and psychological well-being in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (2015) (50)
- Mindful navigation for pedestrians: Improving engagement with augmented reality (2016) (48)
- Post-divorce adaptation and the attribution of responsibility (1981) (47)
- Mindfulness and Intelligence: A Comparison (1990) (47)
- Mindfulness as a Protective Factor for the Burden of Caregivers of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients. (1970) (46)
- Sit Still and Pay Attention? (2001) (45)
- Symptom changes in multiple sclerosis following psychological interventions: a systematic review (2014) (45)
- Mindfulness Versus Positive Evaluation (2009) (40)
- Pregnancy: A social stigma? (1977) (38)
- Mindful Learning: A Moderator of Gender Differences in Mathematics Performance (2008) (36)
- The mindlessness of social comparisons. (2010) (35)
- Enabling a Socio-cognitive Perspective of Mindfulness: The Development and Validation of the Langer Mindfulness Scale (2018) (34)
- The DSM: mindful science or mindless power? A critical review (2014) (34)
- Mindful Creativity: Drawing to Draw Distinctions (2004) (34)
- Longitudinal associations between mindfulness and well-being in people with multiple sclerosis (2018) (33)
- Mindfulness in the Age of Complexity (2014) (32)
- Mindfulness Forward and Back (2014) (31)
- Improving Attention in Old Age (2001) (31)
- Mindlessness-mindfulness in perspective: A reply to Valerie Folkes. (1985) (31)
- Interpersonal mindlessness and language (1992) (28)
- chapter 11 – Old Age: An Artifact?1 (1981) (28)
- Two new applications of mindlessness theory: Alcoholism and aging (1988) (26)
- Mindfulness as a Psychological Attractor: The Effect on Children (2012) (25)
- The Influence of Age-Related Cues on Health and Longevity (2010) (23)
- False memories of the future: a critique of the applications of probabilistic reasoning to the study of cognitive processes. (2002) (23)
- The Effects of Behavioral Monitoring on the Perception of Control (1983) (22)
- Attitudes and Attitude Change: Mindlessness-Mindfulness Perspective (1984) (21)
- Language, Fallacies, and Mindlessness-Mindfulness in Social Interaction (1995) (21)
- Mindful Attraction and Synchronization: Mindfulness and Regulation of Interpersonal Synchronicity (2014) (20)
- An exploration of relationships among mindfulness, longevity, and senility. (1984) (18)
- Blood sugar level follows perceived time rather than actual time in people with type 2 diabetes (2016) (18)
- Developing the Langer Mindfulness Scale (2015) (17)
- The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness: Ie/The Wiley (2014) (17)
- An analysis of addictions from a mindful/mindless perspective. (1990) (17)
- Burglary (Non)prevention: An Instance of Relinquishing Control (1978) (16)
- Mindful Attention to Variability Intervention and Successful Pregnancy Outcomes. (2016) (16)
- Toward mindful social comparison: When subjective and objective selves are mutually exclusive (2007) (16)
- Mindful Reappraisal: Comment on “Mindfulness Broadens Awareness and Builds Eudaimonic Meaning: A Process Model of Mindful Positive Emotion Regulation” (2015) (14)
- Utilizing a Creative Task to Assess Langerian Mindfulness (2017) (13)
- The mindless use of medical data (2012) (12)
- Investigating the development and courses of intimate relationships. (1988) (11)
- Manipulating sleep duration perception changes cognitive performance - An exploratory analysis. (2020) (10)
- Mindful creativity matters: trajectories of reported functioning after severe traumatic brain injury as a function of mindful creativity in patients’ relatives: a multilevel analysis (2017) (10)
- Mindful leadership communication: Three keys for action (2012) (9)
- Ageing as a mindset: a study protocol to rejuvenate older adults with a counterclockwise psychological intervention (2019) (9)
- Mindfulness: The essence of well-being and happiness (2016) (8)
- Control from the actor's perspective. (1992) (8)
- Vocational Personalities and Mindfulness (2014) (8)
- A Cost of Pretending (2003) (8)
- Seeing What We Know, Knowing What We See: Challenging the Limits of Visual Acuity (2012) (8)
- Erratum to Rodin and Langer. (1978) (8)
- Mindful learning: A world without losers (1992) (7)
- Mindfulness and Leadership: Opening up to Possibilities (2011) (7)
- An online non-meditative mindfulness intervention for people with ALS and their caregivers: a randomized controlled trial (2021) (6)
- Cognitive biases and mindfulness (2021) (6)
- Judgment under uncertainty: The illusion of control (1982) (6)
- Glucose metabolism responds to perceived sugar intake more than actual sugar intake (2020) (5)
- Mindfulness and relaxation training for long duration spaceflight: Evidences from analog environments and military settings (2019) (4)
- Reversing Disability in Old Age (1996) (4)
- Personal politics: the psychology of making it (1973) (4)
- The Mindlessness of Social Comparisons and its Effect on Creativity (2010) (4)
- Perceived Control and Mindfulness (2016) (4)
- A mindful approach with end-of-life thoughts (2014) (4)
- Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility (2009) (3)
- Mindfulness for Autism (2021) (3)
- The effect of mindful attention training for pain modulation capacity: Exploring the mindfulness-pain link. (2020) (3)
- The Mindful Mind@@@The Power of Mindful Learning (1997) (3)
- Reducing Delirium and Improving Patient Satisfaction With a Perioperative Mindfulness Intervention: A Mixed-Methods Pilot Study (2019) (3)
- Longevity Rules: How to Age Well Into the Future (2010) (3)
- Personal Control and Successful Aging (2019) (3)
- Reply to Douglas Davis. (1981) (2)
- Mindfulness and mindlessness and ALS (2018) (2)
- Mindfulness and Cultivating Well-being in Older Adults (2013) (2)
- Feasibility of an Online Langerian Mindfulness Program for Stroke Survivors and Caregivers (2022) (2)
- Opening Our Minds to Deepen Our Vision. (2001) (2)
- Peak Performance: Langerian Mindfulness and Flow (2016) (1)
- Individual-adjustment behavior versus group-welfare behaviorTowards a new conceptual framework for the study of free-riding: theory and the results of an experimental study (1987) (1)
- What are the benefits of being mindful ? (2017) (1)
- Mindfulness as an Intervention Targeted to Core Cognitive Theories of Autism (2020) (1)
- 10. When ‘‘Stupid’’ Is Smarter Than We Are (2017) (1)
- Mindfulness, Recreation, and Relaxation for Exploration Missions (2017) (1)
- Langer Mindfulness Scale (2020) (1)
- The Psychology of Possibilities (2015) (1)
- Virtual Aging and Langerian Psychology of Possibility (Revisiting the Medical Disempowering Models of Aging) (2014) (0)
- Mind and Body in Severe Chronic Disorders: A Mindfulness Perspective: (539652014-001) (2014) (0)
- Creativity and Smartphone Use: Three Correlational Studies (2022) (0)
- Leadership and Organizational Behavior (2014) (0)
- NYU.1287_style guide_5.13 (2008) (0)
- The Mind/Body Relationship in Severe Chronic Disorders (2014) (0)
- "Tomorrow will show that at least some of what we take as impossible is indeed possible; it's just that the particular way has not yet been found." (2011) (0)
- The Psychology of Possibilities: Extending the Limits of Human Functioning (2015) (0)
- Bridling the Mindless Ambivalence: Langerian Mindfulness and Suspension of Intentionality (2020) (0)
- Why We Value Should Choices More Retrospectively, and How Mindfulness Allows Us to Make Smarter Decisions Prospectively (2014) (0)
- Cognitive biases and mindfulness (2021) (0)
- Beta-Testing of an Online Mindfulness Program Designed for Stroke Survivors and Their Caregivers During a Pandemic (2021) (0)
- The fatigue illusion: the physical effects of mindlessness (2022) (0)
- Seeing What We Know, Knowing What We See: Challenging the Limits of Visual Acuity (2012) (0)
- Mental Set (2020) (0)
- Well-Being (2019) (0)
- A non-meditative approach to mindfulness in psychotherapy (2014) (0)
- Mindfulness, Recreation and Relaxation for Long Duration Exploration Missions (2016) (0)
- Enabling a Socio-cognitive Perspective of Mindfulness: The Development and Validation of the Langer Mindfulness Scale (2018) (0)
- Erratum to Langer and Saegert. (1977) (0)
- Forecasting the onset and course of mental illness with Twitter data (2017) (0)
- Take Notice (2021) (0)
- Langerian Mindfulness and Its Psychotherapeutic Implications: Recomposing/Decomposing Mindlessly Constructed Life Stories (2018) (0)
- Mindfulness for Autism (2020) (0)
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