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Mindfulness / Ellen J. Langer.
Material type:
TextPublication details: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., �1989.Description: xiv, 234 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0201095025
- 9780201095029
- 0201523418
- 9780201523416
- Attention
- Consciousness
- Thought and thinking
- Mental efficiency
- Attention
- Conscience
- Attention
- Consciousness
- Mental efficiency
- Thought and thinking
- Attention
- Consciousness
- Inefficiency, intellectual
- Thought and thinking
- Attention -- Popular Works
- Consciousness -- Popular Works
- Attention
- Consciousness
- Mental efficiency
- Thought and thinking
- 153 LAN 19
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | Clonmel Library Main Collection | 153 LAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | R01296WKRCC |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"A landmark work of social psychology" (Booklist) now in paperback at a popular price". . . . Harvard psychology professor Langer seeks to dramatize the rigid conditions and mindsets that often produce a pervasive state of automatized stupidity . . . (and) proposes a life-enhancing alternative".--Kirkus Reviews.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- acknowledgments (p. xiii)
- Chapter 1 Introduction (p. 1)
- Part 1 Mindlessness (p. 7)
- Chapter 2 When the Light's On and Nobody's Home (p. 9)
- Chapter 3 The Roots of Mindlessness (p. 19)
- Chapter 4 The Cost of Mindlessness (p. 43)
- Part 2 Mindfulness (p. 59)
- Chapter 5 The Nature of Mindfulness (p. 61)
- Chapter 6 Mindful Aging (p. 81)
- Chapter 7 Creative Uncertainty (p. 115)
- Chapter 8 Mindfulness on the Job (p. 133)
- Chapter 9 Decreasing prejudice by Increasing Discrimination (p. 153)
- Chapter 10 Minding Matters: Mindfulness and Health (p. 171)
- Epilogue: Beyond Mindfulness (p. 197)
- Notes (p. 205)
- Index (p. 225)
- About the The Author (p. 234)