Ellen Langer
Professor

Research Interests: Mindfulness/ mindlessness; health and well being; social cognition/ decision-making.
Ellen Langer earned her Ph.D. at Yale University in Social and Clinical Psychology and joined the faculty at Harvard in 1977. The Langer lab focuses primarily on health/disease; education/learning; business leadership, innovation, work/life integration; and stereotyping all from the perspective of mindfulness/mindlessness theory.