Professor Emeritus
School of Education, Room 113
University of Colorado at Boulder
249 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0249
Phone: 303-492-8747
Fax: 303-492-7090
E-mail: philip.langer@colorado.edu

Dr. Langer is a professor of education, specializing in educational psychology. With Dr. Verne Keenan (School of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder), he conducted a number of studies analyzing the contributions of various feedback formats to specific memorial representations of expository text. In addition, Dr. Langer developed a number of multimedia auto tutorial instructional systems, both at the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research (Berkeley, CA) and at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Finally, along with Dr. Robert Pois (History) he has published a book examining the psychological correlates of decision-making by military leaders, as instances of cognitive rigidity under stress.

Dr. Langer is a faculty fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado, which is an interdisciplinary institute. He was awarded a fellowship with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He has received grants from the United States Office of Scientific Research, the United States Air Force Office of Education, the United States Air Training Command, the University of Colorado CRCW Small Grant, and the Utah State University Office of Scientific Research. Dr. Langer was also a faculty fellow on an NSF Grant in the College of Engineering at the University of Colorado.

Education:
PhD Education, University of Connecticut, 1957
MA Science Education, New York University, 1951
BA Chemistry, University of Michigan, 1948