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Overview

Ellen J. Langer is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology and medicine, with a notable emphasis on clinical psychology and experimental and cognitive psychology. Additional subfields include cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, and physiology.

The scholar's work spans several main topics, notably mindfulness and compassion interventions. Other key areas of investigation are anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes. Research also covers stroke rehabilitation and recovery, child therapy and development, behavioral health and interventions, the impact of technology on adolescents, and pain management and the placebo effect.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Langer include the following:

  • An online non-meditative mindfulness intervention for people with ALS and their caregivers: a randomized controlled trial (2021) published in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration
  • Cognitive biases and mindfulness (2021) published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Sex, Age, and Smartphone Addiction Across 41 Countries (2023) published in International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
  • Private vehicle drivers' acceptance of autonomous vehicles: The role of trait mindfulness (2024) published in Transport Policy
  • Manipulating sleep duration perception changes cognitive performance - An exploratory analysis (2020) published in Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Langer frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Francesco Pagnini, Deborah Phillips, Philip Maymin, and Jay A. Olson.

The scientist's publications are often found in prominent academic venues such as Scientific Reports, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Frontiers in Psychology, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration, and the International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.

Best Publications

  • The illusion of control.

    Ellen J. Langer

  • The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: A field experiment in an institutional setting.

    Ellen J. Langer;Judith Rodin

  • The Power of Mindful Learning

    Ellen J. Langer

  • Heads I win, tails it's chance: The illusion of control as a function of the sequence of outcomes in a purely chance task.

    Ellen J. Langer;Jane Roth

  • The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action: The Role of "Placebic" Information in Interpersonal Interaction

    Ellen J. Langer;Arthur Blank;Benzion Chanowitz

  • Long-term effects of a control-relevant intervention with the institutionalized aged

    Judith Rodin;E. J. Langer

  • The psychology of control

    Ellen Langer

  • Minding matters: the consequences of mindlessness-mindfulness

    Ellen J. Langer

  • Aging free from negative stereotypes: successful memory in China and among the American deaf

    Becca Levy;Ellen Langer

  • Mind-Set Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect

    Alia J. Crum;Ellen J. Langer

  • Reduction of psychological stress in surgical patients

    Ellen J. Langer;Irving L. Janis;John A. Wolfer

  • Matters of mind: Mindfulness/mindlessness in perspective

    Ellen J Langer

  • Mindfulness and self-acceptance

    Shelley H. Carson;Ellen J. Langer

  • Transcendental meditation, mindfulness, and longevity: an experimental study with the elderly.

    Charles N. Alexander;Ellen J. Langer;Ronnie I. Newman;Howard M. Chandler

  • Forecasting the onset and course of mental illness with Twitter data

    Andrew G. Reece;Andrew J. Reagan;Katharina L. M. Lix;Peter Sheridan Dodds

  • Aging Labels: The Decline of Control and the Fall of Self-Esteem

    Judith Rodin;Ellen J. Langer

  • Mindfulness Research and the Future

    Ellen J. Langer;Mihnea Moldoveanu

  • Mindful Learning

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  • The semantics of asking a favor: How to succeed in getting help without really dying.

    Ellen J. Langer;Robert P. Abelson

  • Stigma, Staring, and Discomfort: A Novel-Stimulus Hypothesis.

    Ellen J. Langer;Susan Tufts Fiske;Shelley E. Taylor;Benzion Chanowitz

  • A patient by any other name--clinician group difference in labeling bias.

    Ellen J. Langer;Robert P. Abelson

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesco Pagnini
Francesco Pagnini Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Judith Rodin
Judith Rodin Rockefeller Foundation
Robert P. Abelson
Robert P. Abelson Yale University
Sigal Zilcha-Mano
Sigal Zilcha-Mano University of Haifa
Becca R. Levy
Becca R. Levy Yale University
Enrico Molinari
Enrico Molinari Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Ronnie Janoff-Bulman
Ronnie Janoff-Bulman University of Massachusetts Amherst
Todd Bodner
Todd Bodner Portland State University
Emily B. Falk
Emily B. Falk University of Pennsylvania
Irving L. Janis
Irving L. Janis Yale University

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