Ellen Langer

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Ellen Langer (2008)

Ellen Jane Langer (born March 15, 1947 in New York City ) is an American psychologist. She is a professor of psychology at Harvard University . Her areas of expertise include the illusion of control , decision making , aging, and mindfulness .

Life

Ellen Langer wrote her PhD in social and clinical psychology in 1974 at Yale University . She is the author of more than 200 academic articles and six academic books, of which Mindfulness and The Power of Mindful Learning are arguably the best known.

Her life is filmed in the comedy Counter Clockwise , starring John Cleese .

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In 1980 she was awarded a Guggenheim scholarship . Other honors include the American Psychological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions for Psychology in the Public Interest , the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology's Distinguished Contributions of Basic Science to Applied Psychology , the James McKeen Cattell Prize, and the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Award.

literature

  • with J. Roth: Heads I win, tails it's chance. 1975, The illusion of control as a function of the sequence of outcomes in a purely chance task. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 34: pp. 191-198.
  • The Illusion of Control. In: Kahneman D., Paul Slovic & A. Tversky (Eds.): Judgment Under Uncertainty. : Heuristics and Biases. Cambridge University Press, New York 1982.
  • Mindfulness. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA 1989, ISBN 0-201-52341-8 .
  • The Power of Mindful Learning . Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA 1997, ISBN 0-201-33991-9 .
  • Little guide to being smart. Klett, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-608-91996-1 .
  • Smart learning . : seven chapters on creative thinking and acting. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-499-61121-X .
  • On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity. Ballantine Books, 2005, ISBN 0-345-45629-7 .
  • Turn back the clock? : Growing old healthily through the beneficial effects of attention. Junfermann, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-87387-755-9 .
  • Amanda Ie, Christelle T. Ngnoumen, Ellen J. Langer (Eds.): The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester 2014, ISBN 978-1-118-29487-1 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on kino.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kino.de
personal data
SURNAME Langer, Ellen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Langer, Ellen Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City