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BBC beats Jennifer Aniston: Airing a show later this month about Harvard psych prof Ellen Langer's well-known research on aging and attitude

I have been waiting a long while for Jennifer Aniston to release a movie about the experiment detailed in Ellen Langer's newest book Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility (more here and here). Lately I have hea...

Should we change our assumptions about elders? Do we know as much as we think we do? Should we say no to aging?

When reading this blog post about elders and mediation, I was reminded of the new book Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. The author Dr. Ellen Langer details the problems with mindless assumptions about such ...

Age Is Just a Number: Believe You’re Younger and Your Health Will Follow

News release (Association for Psychological Science): Maybe age really is just a number. How young or old someone feels has a huge influence on their health and how other people view them. An article published in Perspectives on Psychol...

How teaching can support mindlessness (and another warning about jumping on the neuroscience research train)

Although it is over a decade old, this article by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer reminds us of the role mindfulness (and mindlessness) can play in learning. It also serves as a caveat about jumping mindlessly on the brain research tr...

HBR: Six-week blog series on the future of leadership

For six weeks, a Harvard Business Review blog is "imagining the future of leadership." The posts so far include: Leadership on the Brain by David Rock A Call for Mindful Leadership by Ellen Langer It's Not All About You by Deborah Anc...

Discovering Psychology: 26 videos giving an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior

Each of these videos is about a 30 minutes long, and they are all available for free in two different ways. At this Web site, they can be viewed in pop-up screens and you also can access supplemental learning resources, and from here the...