Wow. Such a great interview with Ellen Langer on Friday, October
15, 2010. we covered loads of things about her research over the
last 40 years and her latest book, Counterclockwise. She
took questions emailed in from listeners everywhere. And she talked
about the new movie, Counterclockwise, that DreamWorks is developing
based on her life. They've got the script completed. And Jennifer Anniston
will play Ellen at 34 as she carries out her famous Counterclockwise
experiment (the one with the elderly men going to a week-long retreat
in a monastery retrofitted to emulate their world 22 years before in
1959). She also talked about the just-filmed UK reality show where elderly
British celebrities went through the Counterclockwise experience again.
She's warm, spontaneous, extremely engaging, and, of course, very smart.
Give it a listen. (Also look at the articles at the bottom of this page!)
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Dr.
Ellen Langer is a world renowned professor of psychology at Harvard
University. Her most recent book is Counterclockwise:
Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. In addition
she has written the bestselling book, Mindfulness, The Power of
Mindful Learning, and On Becoming An Artist.
Her website is at www.ellenlanger.com
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. Her work has led to numerous academic honors
including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award for Distinguished Contributions
to Psychology in the Public Interest of the American Psychological Association,
the Distinguished Contributions of Basic Science to Applied Psychology
award from the American Association of Applied & Preventive Psychology,
the Adult Development and Aging Distinguished Research Achievement Award
from the American Psychological Association, the James McKeen Cattel
Award, and the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize.
The citation for the APA distinguished contributions award reads,
in part, "…her pioneering work revealed the profound effects
of increasing mindful behavior…and offers new hope to millions
whose problems were previously seen as unalterable and inevitable. Ellen
Langer has demonstrated repeatedly how our limits are of our own making."
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. In addition to other honors, she has been a guest
lecturer in Japan, Malaysia, Germany, and Argentina.
Included among her books are:
Mindfulness.
Reading, MA: Da Capo Books, 1989. (Translated into thirteen languages.)
Chronicle of Higher Education Profile: The
Art of Living Mindfully: Nothing is ever certain, says the psychologist
Ellen Langer. We should make the most of that.
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