Ellen Langer

Dr. Langers work centers on the illusion of control, aging, decision-making, and mindfulness theory. Her books written for general and academic readers include Mindfulness, The Power of Mindful Learning, On Becoming An Artist: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity, and Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility.

Her research 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 Adult Development and Aging Distinguished Research Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association, and the Distinguished Contributions of Basic Science to Applied Psychology award from the American Association of Applied & Preventive Psychology.

The citation for the APA distinguished contributions award reads, in part, her pioneering work revealed the profound effects of increasing mindful behaviorand 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 the United States, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Germany, and Argentina.