Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Ellen Langer
Born: March 25, 1947 (age 78)
Bio: Ellen Jane Langer is a professor of psychology at Harvard University, having in 1981 become the first woman ever to be tenured in psychology at Harvard. Langer studies the illusion of control, decision-making, aging, and mindfulness theory.
Known for:
- The power of mindful learning (1997)
- Mindfulness (1989)
- The psychology of control (1983)