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Ellen J. Langer
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 140
Citations - 17153
Ellen J. Langer is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mindfulness & Cognition. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 136 publications receiving 16214 citations. Previous affiliations of Ellen J. Langer include Yale University & The Graduate Center, CUNY.
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The illusion of control.
TL;DR: For instance, this article argued that people treat chance events as controllable and treat success in skill tasks as a fortuitous happening, whereas success in luck or chance activities is apparently uncontrollable.
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The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: A field experiment in an institutional setting.
Ellen J. Langer,Judith Rodin +1 more
TL;DR: Assessment of the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and choice on a group of nursing home residents found a significant improvement for the experimental group over the comparison group on alertness, active participation, and a general sense of well-being.
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The Power of Mindful Learning
TL;DR: The Myth of Delayed Gratification and the Hazards of Rote Memory: A New Look at Forgetting as mentioned in this paper, a new look at forgetting, mindfulness and intelligence, and the Illusion of Right Answers
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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 +1 more
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The Mindlessness of Ostensibly Thoughtful Action: The Role of "Placebic" Information in Interpersonal Interaction
TL;DR: The authors found that unless the communication occasioned an effortful response or was structurally (rather than semantically) novel, responding that suggests ignorance of relevant information would occur, and the predictions were confirmed for both oral and written communications.