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	Ellen Langer's Mindlessness
		Ellen Langer and the social psychology of mindlessness
		Langer’s observations are nothing new on this count.
		Langer and a colleague conducted an experiment at an employment line in Boston, where for a supposed "linguistic study of voice quality," they asked people to talk into a tape recorder.
	www.stayfreemagazine.org /archives/16/mindlessness.html (2027 words)

	Langer, Ellen - WikEd
		Ellen Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University.
		Langer has described her work on the illusion of control, aging, decision-making, and mindfulness theory in over 200 research articles and six academic books.
		Langer is a Fellow of The Sloan Foundation; The American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, The American Association for the Advancement of Science; Computers and Society; The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; The Society of Experimental Social Psychologists.
	wik.ed.uiuc.edu /index.php/Langer,_Ellen (667 words)

	NTLF Vol. 12 No. 2 2003 - Mindfulness in Teaching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		In a telephone interview from Mexico, Langer admits that she’s been called a closet Buddhist because of the seeming overlap between her ideas and Eastern perspectives, but her interest in mindfulness had a different origin.
		In experiment after experiment, Langer and her associates have proven that it does, that subtle differences in how conditionally faculty present material has significant effects on how students absorb and are able to use it.
		Langer’s urging that faculty teach “conditionally” and “relationally,” that they fully admit and let the students in on the fact that we swim in a sea of uncertainty which we navigate through longitude and latitude of our own devising, seems frightening on the surface.
	www.ntlf.com /FTPSite/issues/v12n2/mindfulness.htm (1494 words)

	Ellen J. Langer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Dr. Ellen Langer is a professor in the Psychology Department at Harvard University.
		Dr. Langer has described her work on the illusion of control, aging, decision-making, and mindfulness theory in over 200 research articles and six academic books.
		Dr. Langer is a Fellow of The Sloan Foundation; The American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, The American Association for the Advancement of Science; Computers and Society; The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; The Society of Experimental Social Psychologists.
	www.wjh.harvard.edu /~langer/bio.html (208 words)

	Green Head Emporium : Book Shop - The Power of Mindful Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		In her book, Professor Langer seeks to prove that real learning takes place in a "mindful" environment, one that provides a context for the subject we are studying and allows us to bring something of ourselves into the process.
		Langer is a very creative and unique person, the unstated educational philosophy here is as elite and as unfulfilling as a Bordeaux cookie.
		Langer argues that learning need not be boring and students don't have to think of education as "work." She suggests ways to re-frame activities in ways that engage students in what they are doing and give them a reason to care about the outcomes.
	www.thegreenhead.com /emporium/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0201339919 (1467 words)

	Mindfulness talk
		Psychologist Ellen Langer is trying to raise awareness and use of its opposite, mindfulness.
		Langer, the first woman to receive tenure in Harvard University's psychology department, has addressed mindfulness in her research and writing.
		Langer advocated taking a wider perspective in teaching, to see what's right in a different answer, rather than characterizing a different answer as a wrong one.
	www.cwru.edu /pubaff/univcomm/rel-archive/langer.htm (759 words)

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		Langer's theories postulate that learning should be fun and that the process for accomplishing anything is just as important, sometimes more important than the outcome.
		Langer, E. and Roth, J. Heads I win, tails it's chance: The illusion of control as a function of the sequence of outcomes in a purely chance task.
		Langer, E. and Imber, L. The role of mindlessness in the perception of deviance.
	www.easitennis.com /Langer_Bio.htm (2415 words)

	Mindfulness Ellen Langer
		The true individual is characterised by openness to the new, is always reclassifying the meaning of knowledge and experience, and has the ability to see their daily actions in a bigger, consciously chosen perspective.
		Langer recognises the parallels in her work with Eastern religion; for example, the Buddhist understanding that meditation is about enjoying a mindful state which leads to ‘right action’.
		Langer obtained a BA in Psychology from New York University in 1970, and her Ph.D. from Yale in 1974.
	www.butler-bowdon.com /mindful.htm (564 words)

	When 1 and 1 Are Not 2
		One of Langer's tenets is that by fostering an ability to greet the great unknown with open arms, rather than with the more typical reactions of fear or denial, we can reap tremendous rewards.
		In the introduction to Mindfulness Langer cites an experiment in which a group of elderly nursing home residents were given a mindful choice of houseplants to care for and were asked to make small decisions about their daily routines.
		Langer has found in studies that telling subjects "This is" a dog's chew toy versus "this could be" a dog's chew toy, radically changed the subjects' ability to think creatively about the object.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1997/01.16/When1and1AreNot.html (769 words)

	Resurrection: The Struggle For A New Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		In her newest book about learning, Ellen Langer, Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, continues to explore the implications of the concept of "mindfulness," first presented in her earlier work of the same title.
		Among these beliefs, or myths as she calls them, are the importance of rote memorization, the necessity of deferring gratification in learning, "right" and "wrong" answers, and even the view that there is an objective truth and that intelligence is the ability to recognize it.
		Langer also challenges the "inhibiting myth" that "only a massive overhaul can give us a more effective educational system," though she never illustrates how meaningful educational reform can be accomplished in large institutions.
	users.rcn.com /denebola/archives/vol37_issue5/issue/book_review/article2.html (991 words)

	Mindfulness by Ellen J. Langer, An Evolution of Consciousness Review by Bobby Matherne
		Langer's work is helpful, however, especially her efforts in nursing homes.
		In its effects on aging, the workplace, creativity, and health, Langer probes for the existence of mindlessness and, finding it everywhere present, she suggests methods for promulgating its cure: mindfulness.
		Always and again Langer's studies come back to the point that a mindset can lead us into error or away from solutions by providing a map of a territory that is no longer present.
	www.doyletics.com /_arj1/mindfuln.htm (547 words)

	Mindfulness Seminar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Join Dr. Ellen Langer and members of her Mindfulness Lab for A Mindful Life, an intensive weekend course in the art of living mindfully.
		Ellen Langer has demonstrated repeatedly how our limits are of our own making." Visit http://www.wjh.Harvard.edu/~langer/bio.html for more information on Dr. Langer and her work.
		Langer will be joined by several members of her Mindfulness Lab, who have devoted their lives to researching the essence of mindfulness and to the art of living mindfully.
	www.talkaboutrecovery.com /group/alt.recovery/messages/54032.html (621 words)

	New Horizons for Learning: Transforming Education
		That seems to be Ellen Langer’s plan in her new book, The Power of Mindful Learning.
		Langer argues that teachers must teach facts conditionally to allow for doubt and more learning to take place.
		Ellen Langer, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
	www.newhorizons.org /trans/trans_review_langer.htm (346 words)

	Amazon.de: English Books: The Power of Mindful Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Ellen Langer has taken a thought and put great amounts of research into it.
		I watched a 30-minute PBS special with Ellen Langer discussing her book and have read the book--her interview was much better and to the point.
		Langer compares the rote method of learning and performing (as a musician, teacher or student) with mindful learning which includes the dynamic variable of context.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0201339919 (1351 words)

	Books : The Power of Mindful Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Langer happens to be one of the more articulate proponents of this kind of thinking, namely: (i) conditional teaching and (ii) creative distractions increase the "mindfulness" of a person's learning; that (iii) rote learning is verboten,...
		Langer attacks the myth that rote learning and blind memorization are the foundation for...
		Ellen did a great job with this book, giving us the why-to's explaining why we need a different attitude against learning.
	meseta.net /ItemId/0201339919 (730 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Mindfulness over matter
		Langer spoke with me via telephone from her Cambridge office last week.
		LANGER: These days, the notion that we should live mindfully, or ''in the moment,'' is pabulum - we all pay lip service to that ideal now.
		LANGER: I once conducted a study in which two groups of subjects were asked to perform the same tasks, but one group was told it was work and the other was told it was play.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/04/17/mindfulness_over_matter (468 words)

	ELLEN J
		Ellen Langer earned her B.A. in Psychology in 1970 from the New York University College, completed a Clinical Internship in 1971 at Yale University, and earned her Ph.D. in Psychology in 1974 from Yale University.
		Langer's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest Award(1988) from the American Psychological Association, and Distinguished Contributions in Basic Science to the Application of Psychology(1996) from the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology.
		Langer, E. The value of a social psychological approach to clinical issues.
	easitennis2.com /Langer_Bio.htm (2415 words)

	Mindlessness & Peripheral Processing in Persuasion
		Ellen Langer conducted the following brilliant, fascinating study.
		She conspired with her university librarian to shut down all but one of the photocopy machines in a busy wing of the library.
		Over the course of several days, Langer had confederates approach a person at the front of the line with a request to "cut" in line.
	www.workingpsychology.com /mindless.html (628 words)

	ACHUKASTORE - On Becoming an Artist : Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity - Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		It has some, but Langer surrounds it with a limp, academic prose that is at times painful to read.
		Langer uses the communal "We" throughout the book, which I find irritating and distracting.
		Langer also relies heavily on personal anecdotes to illustrate her points, and many of them leave the reader wondering whether she could have found better examples.
	www.achuka.co.uk /amstore/info.php?asin=0345456297 (399 words)

	On Becoming an Artist : Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer shows us that creativity is not a rare gift that only some special few are born with, but rather an integral part of everyone’s makeup.
		She describes dozens of fascinating experiments–her own and those of her colleagues–that are designed to study mindfulness and its relation to human creativity, and she shares the profound implications of the results–for our well-being, health, and happiness.
		Langer reveals myriad insights, among them: We think we should already know what only firsthand experience can teach us.
	www.enotalone.com /books/0345456297.html (1380 words)

	Alibris: Ellen J. Langer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Harvard psychology professor Langer seeks to dramatize the rigid conditions and mindsets that often produce a pervasive state of automatized stupidity.
		by Langer, Ellen J, Ph.D. In business, sports, laboratories, and at home, our learning is hobbled, according to the author, by seven pernicious myths.
		by Langer, Ellen J, Ph.D. Langer uses her orginal field research to show the impact of a person's sense of control on their mental and physical well being.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Ellen_J._Langer (349 words)

	The Power of Mindful Learning, by Ellen J. Langer .
		Ellen Langer takes a look at some of Education's most "sacred cows"- the importance of basic skills, of learning to delay gratification, of intelligence.
		Langer backs her ideas and suggestions with research results showing, for example, that the commonly-accepted age-related decline in memory experienced by most Americans doesn't occur in people who don't share our beliefs about old age.
		She shows how simple changes in the way a physics video was introduced to students either facilitated or interfered with their ability to use the information in the video creatively.
	www.greensense.com /~alnw/Marketplace/Books/power_mindful_learn.htm (721 words)

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		Ellen J. Langer is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University.
		She is Chair of the Social Psychology Program and a member of the Division on Aging of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard.
		The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Professor Langer is the author of over seventy-five journal articles and chapters in scholarly works.
	www.mcdonaldization.com /ourstore.shtml (1285 words)

	Online NewsHour: Getting High From Football -- January 24, 1997
		But, says psychologist Ellen Langer, who prefers dog fur to pigskin, the Super Bowl can simply be an event to enjoy for any of us so long as we bring what she calls mindfulness to the game.
		ELLEN LANGER, Psychologist: And what that means is to actively notice things that you hadn’t noticed before.
		PAUL SOLMAN: Langer once asked three groups of women who didn’t like football to watch the Super Bowl and notice new things--players’ faces, how a pass is thrown, whatever.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/sports/super_1-24.html (1794 words)

	Spirituality & Health: The Power of Mindful Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		A professor of psychology at Harvard, Ellen J. Langer describes in this book seven myths or mindsets which "stifle our creativity, silence our questions and diminish our self-esteem." They include practice makes perfect, rote memorization, delaying gratification, and clinging to the idea of right answers.
		As an antidote, Langer presents the lineaments of mindful learning which include the ability to notice new things, to fashion new categories, to welcome fresh perspectives, and to reframe information.
		Langer also shows how our society must rethink both aging and memory loss and the so-called problem of attention deficit.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/bookreview/item_7317.html (190 words)

	Working in Movement : Working in Movement
		Ellen Langer has thought about it a lot.
		She is a psychologist at Harvard University, and has written a couple of books on something that she calls "mindful learning." She talked extensively on her views of paying attention during a
		But in the interview, Langer suggests another approach, a mindful one.
	radio.weblogs.com /0128836/2003/12/19.html (680 words)

	Exploring the Mind-Body Connection: Events on Healing (2.3 and 2.8.04)
		Langer's research shows that that mindlessness is a major source of error, unhappiness and boredom, causing people to place limitations on their skills, expectations and potential.
		In this seminar, Langer teaches people how to be "mindful" in their everyday lives by using the senses, stressing process over outcome, and allowing free rein to intuition and creativity.
		Langer is the author of Mindfulness: The Power of Mindful Learning and Mindful Creativity: Creating a Personal Renaissance.
	www.92y.org /content/day_of_healing_2004.asp (1419 words)

	NTLF Vol. 12 No. 2 2003 - How Students Learn
		One could argue that this is not a problem when teaching at the college level because most of the material is necessarily conditional.
		For example, what I have just described is Langer's theory of mindlessness and mindfulness, or Langer's model.
		Built into a notion of a theory, model, or hypothesis is some uncertainty.
	www.ntlf.com /html/lib/suppmat/1202langer.htm (1969 words)

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