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...YORK CITY Bergdorf Goodman is the city's only point of sale for Stephen Dweck's popular yellow-gold-and-diamond ring...
...focus on how and when things like this come on line.” Olson’s study, co-authored by Berkman professor of psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke ’71, Cabot professor of social ethics in psychology Mahzarin Banaji, and Stanford professor of psychology Carol S. Dweck, was conducted in two parts. The first part presented the study subjects with descriptions of individuals and asked them to rate their affinity for them on a 1-6 scale. The average rating for “beneficiaries of uncontrollable good events” was a 4.8, while the average...
...fear of failure or peer pressure that conveys the message that doing well academically somehow isn't cool. "Kids get so caught up in the moment-to-moment issue of will they look smart or dumb, and it blocks them from thinking about the long term," says Carol Dweck, a psychology professor at Stanford. "[You have to teach them that] they are in charge of their intellectual growth." Over the past couple of years, Dweck has helped run an experimental workshop with New York City public school seventh-graders to do just that. Dubbed Brainology, the unorthodox approach uses basic...
When an author breaches that core, as Carol S. Dweck does in her contribution “Beliefs that Make Smart People Dumb,” the insights can be weighty and provocative. She posits that smart people behave stupidly precisely because they possess great intelligence. Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, is a prime example. The author’s creation was famous for debunking supernatural phenomenon by giving them rational explanations. Doyle himself, however was a disciple of the supernatural and a great believer in the fantastical apparitions revealed during seances. Though Holmes would argue that these...
Research suggests that when schools or parents put undue emphasis on grades, learning suffers. A recent study of 412 fifth-graders by Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck at Columbia University found that kids who are praised for their performance and inherent intelligence are less willing to take risks and have trouble weathering any sort of failure. Kids who receive praise for their hard work and persistence tend to blame failure not on a lack of ability but on not trying hard enough. "This encourages them to sustain their motivation, performance and self-esteem," says Dweck...
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