The Power of Mindful Learning (23 page)

EL L E N J. L A N G E R is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship,
Professor Langer is author of approximately 100 journal articles and chapters in scholarly works. She is author of Personal
Politics (with Carol Dweck), The Psychology of Control, and
Mindfulness, which has been published in ten countries. She
has also edited Higher Stages of Development with Charles
Alexander and Beliefs, Attitudes and Decision Making with
Roger Schank. In 1988 she received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest
from the American Psychological Association. In 1996 she
received the Award for Distinguished Contributions in Basic
Science to the Application of Psychology from the Association
of Applied and Preventive Psychology.