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Langer, Ellen Jane was born on March 25, 1947 in New York City. Daughter of Norman and Sylvia (Tobias) Langer.
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If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than thirty years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now, in Counterclockwise, she presents the answer: Opening our minds to what’s possible, instead of presuming impossibility, can lead to better health–at any age. Drawing on landmark work in the field and her own body of colorful and highly original experiments–including the first detailed discussion of her “counterclockwise” study, in which elderly men lived for a week as though it was 1959 and showed dramatic improvements in their hearing, memory, dexterity, appetite, and general well-being–Langer shows that the magic of rejuvenation and ongoing good health lies in being aware of the ways we mindlessly react to social and cultural cues. Examining the hidden decisions and vocabulary that shape the medical world (“chronic” versus “acute,” “cure” versus “remission”), the powerful physical effects of placebos, and the intricate but often defeatist ways we define our physical health, Langer challenges the idea that the limits we assume and impose on ourselves are real. With only subtle shifts in our thinking, in our language, and in our expectations, she tells us, we can begin to change the ingrained behaviors that sap health, optimism, and vitality from our lives. Improved vision, younger appearance, weight loss, and increased longevity are just four of the results that Langer has demonstrated. Immensely readable and riveting, Counterclockwise offers a transformative and bold new paradigm: the psychology of possibility. A hopeful and groundbreaking book by an author who has changed how people all over the world think and feel, Counterclockwise is sure to join Mindfulness as a standard source on new-century science and healing.
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¿Se puede hablar con la Muerte? Existen muchas obras literarias que nos hablan de ella, aunque no tantas que hablen con ella. Se desea saber cómo es la muerte, a la vez que se la esconde y banaliza. Hay que reconocer que no resulta nada fácil aceptarla, sobre todo cuando se lleva a seres queridos. Este libro pretende establecer una aproximación de complicidad con el personaje de la Muerte, en primera persona. El vehículo para alcanzar este objetivo es la escritura de Catorce cartas a la muerte (sin respuesta). En la primera de ellas se explica el porqué de esta correspondencia unidireccional y en la última se concluye la relación epistolar con una despedida que no deja -por razones obvias- de ser momentánea. En las restantes doce cartas se abordan algunos de los caminos que un día nos conducirán definitivamente hacia la muerte: enfermedades, accidentes, vejez, hambrunas, suicidios... Y también temáticas para reflexionar con serenidad sobre su certeza incuestionable: el paso del tiempo, la inmortalidad, la pérdida y el duelo, la religión, la eutanasia, la (in)justicia, el arte... A través de un estilo intimista y sencillo, mostrando sentimientos que van desde el humor y la ironía a la rabia y la tristeza, la autora explicita la importancia de tener presente la muerte en la vida, ya que de este modo el vivir cobra plenamente sentido.
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“All it takes to become an artist is to start doing art.” –from On Becoming an Artist On Becoming an Artist is loaded with good news. 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. All of us can express our creative impulses– authentically and uniquely–and, in the process, enrich our lives. Why then do so many of us merely dream of someday painting, someday writing, someday making music? Why do we think the same old thoughts, harbor the same old prejudices, stay stuck in the same old mud? Who taught us to think “inside the box”? No one is more qualified to answer these questions than Dr. Langer, who has explored their every facet for years. 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. . . . In learning the ways that all roses are alike, we risk becoming blind to their differences. . . . If we are mindfully creative, the circumstances of the moment will tell us what to do. . . . Those of us who are less evaluatively inclined experience less guilt, less regret, less blame, and tend to like ourselves more. . . . Uncertainty gives us the freedom to discover meaning. . . . Finally, what we think we’re sure of may not even exist. With the skill of a gifted logician, Langer demonstrates exactly how we undervalue ourselves and undermine our creativity. By example, she persuades us to have faith in our creative works, not because someone else approves of them but because they’re a true expression of ourselves. Her high-spirited, challenging book sparkles with wit and intelligence and inspires in us an infectious enthusiasm for our creations, our world, and ourselves. It can be of lifelong value to everyone who reads it. From the Hardcover edition.
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Langer, Ellen Jane was born on March 25, 1947 in New York City. Daughter of Norman and Sylvia (Tobias) Langer.
She received her bachelor"s degree in Psychology from New York University, and her Doctor of Philosophy in Social and Clinical Psychology from Yale University in 1974.
Her most influential work is Counterclockwise, published in 2009, which answers the questions of aging from her extensive research, and increased interest in the ins and outs of aging across the nation. Langer has had a significant influence on the positive psychology movement. Langer has published over 200 articles and academic texts.
Additionally, in many introductory psychology courses at universities across the United States, her studies are required reading.
Aging Langer and colleagues conducted multiple forms of research to promote the flexibility of aging. One study showed that rewarding behaviors and following completion of memory tasks improves memory.
Another study showed that simply taking care of a plant improves mental and physical health, as well as life expectancy. These studies were the primitive steps to creating the Langer Mindfulness Scale.
Her research provided for improved methods in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Additionally, in one of her most famous studies, Langer found it was possible to lower obesity and diabetes in chambermaids by calling their everyday activity “exercise” rather than “labor.” Mindfulness Langer is well known for her contributions to the study of mindfulness and of mindless behaviour, with these contributions having provided the basis for many studies focused on individual differences in unconscious behavior and decision making processes in humans. In 1989, she published Mindfulness, her first book, and some have referred to her as the "mother of mindfulness". In an interview with Krista Tippett on the National Public Radio program "On Being," broadcast on September
13, 2015, Langer defined mindfulness as "the simple act of noticing things." The Langer Mindfulness Scale is still used in modern research.
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Fellow Computers and Society Institute, American Psychological Association (Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in Public Interest award 1988, Distinguished Contributions of Basic Science to Applied Psychology 1995). Member Society Experimental Social Psychology, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.