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In the years since it was first published, this influential book based on the highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard made its mark for its unique concept of mindfulness, thoroughly adapted to contemporary life in the West. Langer’s theory has been applied to a wide number of fields, including health, business, aging, prejudice, and learning. There is now a new psychological assessment based on her work (called the Langer Mindfulness Scale) as well as an institute in Mexico founded to apply the concepts of mindfulness to health and wellness. In her introduction to this 25th anniversary edition, Dr. Langer outlines some of these exciting applications and suggests those still to come.
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About Ellen J. Langer
Ellen Langer, Yale PhD, Harvard Professor of Psychology, artist. Among
other honors, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and three
Distinguished Scientist Awards, the World Congress Award, the NYU Alumni
Achievement Award, and the Staats award for Unifying Psychology, and has
authored eleven books and over 200 research articles on the illusion of
control, perceived control, successful aging, decision-making, to name a few of
the topics. Each of these is examined through the lens of her theory of
mindfulness. Her research has demonstrated that by actively noticing new
things—the essence of mindfulness—health, well-being, and competence follow.
Her bestselling books include Mindfulness,
The Power of Mindful Learning, On Becoming an Artist: Reinventing Yourself
Through Mindful Creativity, and her most recent book, Counterclockwise: Mindful
Health and the Power of Possibility.
About Bernadette Dunne
Bernadette Dunne is the winner of numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.