“After seven experiments with hundreds of children, we had some of the clearest findings I’ve ever seen: Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. The James McKeen Cattell Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2013 Selected Quotes.The Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 2011.The Donald Campbell Career Achievement Award in Social Psychology from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in 2008.Being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in 2003.Her work has found that these mindsets can have a powerful influence on performance and how people deal with challenges.ĭweck has also received numerous honors and awards for her work including: Children who are praised for their efforts, as opposed to their innate abilities, are more likely to develop a growth mindset.ĭweck’s research on mindsets has provided valuable insight into how beliefs about intelligence influence achievement and motivation. Such mindsets, she believes, can also be fostered through interactions during early childhood. She suggests that people who believe that intelligence is innate and unchangeable hold a “fixed” mindset while those who believe that their abilities hinge on training and effort hold a “growth” mindset.ĭweck believes that this tendency to view ability as fixed or malleable can have a profound impact on almost all areas of a person’s life, especially motivation to achieve. Theoriesĭweck is best-known for her research on motivation, personality, and mindsets. at Yale University in 1972.ĭweck held posts at Columbia, Harvard, and the University at Illinois prior to taking a position as the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University where she continues to work today. She graduated from Barnard College in 1967 and completed her Ph.D.
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