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Carol Susan Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is an American psychologist. She holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology at Stanford University . Dweck is known for her work on motivation and mindset .
Carol Dweck identified two different mindsets regarding intelligence beliefs. The entity theory of intelligence refers to an individual's belief that abilities are fixed traits. [4] For entity theorists, if perceived ability to perform a task is high, the perceived possibility for mastery is also high.
Dweck and Jo Boaler indicate a fixed mindset can lead to sex differences in education, which can partially explain low achievement and participation by minority and female students. [41] Boaler builds on Dweck's research to show that "gender differences in mathematics performance only existed among fixed mindset students". [41]
recommended by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (2003). Yet despite ongoing legislative debate, it is unclear whether these initiatives will have the intended effect, or, even if successful, represent the most effective means for producing such change. In order to address this question, we compared the efficacy of two different ...
See also References External links A Speaker Talk(s) Wajahat Ali The case for having kids (TED2019) Trevor Aaronson How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists (TED2015) Chris Abani Telling stories from Africa (TEDGlobal 2007) On humanity (TED2008) Hawa Abdi Mother and daughter doctor-heroes (TEDWomen 2010) Marc Abrahams A science award that makes you laugh, then think ...
Hosted by Jami Floyd, TED Talks NYC debuted on NYC Life on March 21, 2012. [72] As of October 2020, over 3500 TED talks had been posted, [19] and five to seven new talks are published each week. On TED.com, most talks and speakers are introduced, and talk transcripts are provided; some talks also have footnotes and resource lists.
SYDNEY (Reuters) -The remaining five members of the "Bali Nine" Australian drug ring have returned from Indonesia after diplomatic efforts between the countries this month to strike a repatriation ...
The power posing "hack" gained wide attention after a TED talk she gave in 2012, where she demonstrated the posture and argued for its benefits. [3] The technique was then covered by CNN and Oprah Winfrey ; it was the centerpiece of her 2015 book Presence: Bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges ; and by 2017 her TED talk had been ...