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Ellen Langer
Psychology
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Enabling a Socio-cognitive Perspective of Mindfulness: The Development and Validation of the Langer Mindfulness Scale
This article outlines the development of a 14-item measure of socio-cognitive mindfulness. Using eight samples (including multisource and multi-wave data) with a total of 4139 responses the authors developed a...
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The Psychology of Possibilities: Extending the Limits of Human Functioning
In a study by Langer and Crum (2007), female room attendants who were primed to view their work as a form of exercise demonstrated decreases in BMI, waist-to-hip ratio, and weight. This study showed that — esp...
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Seeing What We Know, Knowing What We See: Challenging the Limits of Visual Acuity
Ageism has resulted in overstated expectations regarding the inevitable deterioration in human capabilities, such as visual perception, with age (Rowe and Kahn in Science, 237, 143–149, 1987; Grant in Health and ...
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Mindful Learning: A Moderator of Gender Differences in Mathematics Performance
Past research has demonstrated that males outperform females in mathematics (Hyde, J. S., Fennema, E., & Lamon, S. J., Psychol Bull 107:139–155, 1990a). Research has also shown that encouraging mindful learning–l...
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A Cost of Pretending
Two experiments were conducted to assess the effect of pretending on the pretenders' self-esteem. People use social pretenses to avoid criticism and receive praise to maintain and augment this self-esteem. Nev...
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Sit Still and Pay Attention?
Sitting still while trying to pay attention implicitly reinforces the idea that to pay attention one should focus on a single aspect of the stimulus. Movement encourages attending to different aspects of the s...
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Reversing Disability in Old Age
In his autobiographical novel, House of God, medical resident Samuel Shem (1978) described the tendency of physicians in his hospital to call the old patients “gomers.” The term gomer (or “gome” for short), Shem ...
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Attitudes and Attitude Change: Mindlessness-Mindfulness Perspective
The study of attitudes has had a long and honored tradition among social psychologists, even to the extent of being defined as the core of social psychology itself (Allport, 1935; Bogardus, 1931; Folsom, 1931;...
