Carol Dweck is an American social and developmental psychologist, the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University since 2004, after faculty positions at the University of Illinois, Harvard University and Columbia University. Her research on people's implicit theories of their own intelligence led to the growth mindset framework, popularized in her 2006 book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, which has shaped educational practice worldwide even as later attempts to replicate its classroom effects have had mixed results. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDistinguished a fixed mindset, treating ability as a static trait, from a growth mindset, treating ability as developable through effort and strategy, and showed that how a learner is praised shapes which belief they form. 2 Carol Dweck
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Dweck developed growth mindset theory while holding this Stanford chair.
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Carol Susan Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is an American psychologist.
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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.
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She holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology at Stanford University.
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Dweck is known for her work on motivation and mindset.
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Praising students for the process they have engaged in, the effort they applied, the strategies they used, the choices they made, the persistence they displayed, yields more long-term benefits than telling them they are smart when they succeed.
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Dweck proposed that there are two types of goal orientation: mastery orientation and performance orientation.
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