TY  - BOOK
AU  - Langer,Ellen J.
TI  - Mindfulness
SN  - 0201523418 (pbk.)
AV  - BF 321 L276 1989
U1  - 153 
PY  - 1989///
CY  - [Boston, Mass.]
PB  - Merloyd Lawrence, Perseus
KW  - Praimera Jornada de Catalogacion
KW  - Atención
KW  - Conciencia
KW  - Attention
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Thought and thinking
KW  - Mental efficiency
N1  - Incluye referencias bibliográficas; hen the light's on and nobody's home --  The roots of mindlessness --  The costs of mindlessness --  The nature of mindfulness --  Mindful aging --  Creative uncertainty --  Mindfulness on the job --  Decreasing prejudice by increasing discrimination --  Minding matters : mindfulness and health. Mindlessness. When the light's on and nobody's home. Trapped by categories ; Automatic behavior ; Acting from a single perspective --  The roots of mindlessness. The "mindless" expert ; The sacrilegious poodle ; Mindlessness and the unconscious ; Belief in limited resources ; Entropy and linear time as limiting mindsets ; Education for outcome ; The power of context --  The costs of mindlessness. A narrow self-image ; Unintended cruelty ; Loss of control ; Learned helplessness ; Stunted potential. Mindfulness. The nature of mindfulness. Creating new categories ; Welcoming new information ; More than one view ; Control over context : the birdman of Alcatraz ; Process before outcome ; Mindfulness East and West --  Mindful aging. Control and survival ; Reversing memory loss ; Outgrowing mindsets ; Scratching the limits of age ; Growth in age ; Putting age in context : an experiment --  Creative uncertainty. Mindfulness and intuition ; Creativity and conditional learning ; Distinctions and analogies --  Mindfulness on the job. Welcoming the glitch ; Second wind ; Innovation ; The power of uncertainty for managers ; Burnout and control --  Decreasing prejudice by increasing discrimination. A patient by any other name ; The painted cast ; Mindfully different ; Disabling mindsets ; Discrimination without prejudice --  Minding matters : mindfulness and health. Dualism : a dangerous mindset ; The body in context ; Addiction in context ; The traditional placebo : fooling the mind ; The active placebo : enlisting the mind; General (US: Trade) Undergraduate Professional & Scholarly
N2  - Ellen J. Langer, Harvard professor of psychology, determines that the mindless following of routine and other automatic behaviors lead to much error, pain and a predetermined course of life. In this thought-provoking book, her research has been "translated" for the lay listener. With anecdotes and metaphors, Langer explains how the mindless--as opposed to the mindful--develop mindsets of categories, associations
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