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Mindfulness / Ellen J. Langer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., �1989.Description: xiv, 234 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0201095025
  • 9780201095029
  • 0201523418
  • 9780201523416
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 153 LAN 19
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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)

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