Students Who Believe Intelligence Can Be Developed Perform Better

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Carol Dweck

Carol S. Dweck, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University whose work "spans social and developmental psychology and examines the self-conceptions people use to structure the self and guide their behavior."

By Carol Dweck

Published on 12/9/2007

ScienceDaily news story on research of Carol Dweck, PhD and others -- Research on how junior high school students' beliefs about intelligence affect their math grades found that those who believed that intelligence can be developed performed better than those who believed intelligence is fixed.