# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ellen-j-langer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:31:55.458Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ellen-j-langer"
name: "Ellen J. Langer"
slug: "ellen-j-langer"
description: "Ellen Jane Langer is an American psychologist and professor of psychology at Harvard University. in 1981, she became the first woman to be tenured in psychology at Harvard. She has been called the \"mother of mindfulness\" and the \"mother of positive psychology\". Langer studies the illusion of control, decision-making, aging, and mindfulness theory. Her most influential work is Counterclockwise, published in 2009, the first test of her mind/body unity theory. Her most recent book, The Mindful Body: Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health, published in 2023, argues for the enormous control we have over our health based on mind/body unity."
tagline: "American psychologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ellen_Langer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1947-03-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.8441022821006323
  historical:           7.541984
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellenjlanger/"
    handle:    "ellenjlanger"
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    title: "إيلين لانغر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ellen Langer"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Langer"
    title: "Ellen Langer"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Langer"
    title: "Ellen Langer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Langer"
    title: "Ellen Langer"
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    title: "엘렌 랭거"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump