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A culture of genius: how an organization's lay theory shapes people's cognition, affect, and behavior

scientific article published on 13 October 2009

A social^cognitive approach to motivation and personality

Academic and emotional functioning in middle school: the role of implicit theories

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Achievement goals and intrinsic motivation: Their relation and their role in adaptive motivation

Addressing the empathy deficit: beliefs about the malleability of empathy predict effortful responses when empathy is challenging

scientific article published in September 2014

Adolescents' implicit theories predict desire for vengeance after peer conflicts: correlational and experimental evidence

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An analysis of learned helplessness: Continuous changes in performance, strategy, and achievement cognitions following failure

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An analysis of learned helplessness: II. The processing of success

scientific article published in November 1980

An implicit theories of personality intervention reduces adolescent aggression in response to victimization and exclusion

scientific article published on 25 October 2012

Are Implicit Motives the Need to Feel Certain Affect? Motive–Affect Congruence Predicts Relationship Satisfaction

scientific article published on August 1, 2012

Behavioral and neural correlates of increased self-control in the absence of increased willpower

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Beliefs about emotional residue: the idea that emotions leave a trace in the physical environment

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Beliefs about willpower determine the impact of glucose on self-control

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Can everyone become highly intelligent? Cultural differences in and societal consequences of beliefs about the universal potential for intelligence

scientific article published on July 16, 2012

Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve

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Children's Responses to Group-Based Inequalities: Perpetuation and Rectification

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Children's Thinking about Traits: Implications for Judgments of the Self and Others

scientific article published on April 1, 1998

Children's biased evaluations of lucky versus unlucky people and their social groups

scientific article published in October 2006

Clarifying Achievement Goals and Their Impact

scientific article published on September 1, 2003

Defensiveness versus remediation: self-theories and modes of self-esteem maintenance

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Ego depletion--is it all in your head? implicit theories about willpower affect self-regulation

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Emotion Theories and Adolescent Well-Being: Results of an Online Intervention

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Emotion beliefs and cognitive behavioural therapy for social anxiety disorder

scientific article published on 7 November 2014

Emotion blocks the path to learning under stereotype threat

scientific article published on January 19, 2011

Evidence for infants' internal working models of attachment

scientific article published in June 2007

Finding "meaning" in psychology: a lay theories approach to self-regulation, social perception, and social development

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From needs to goals and representations: Foundations for a unified theory of motivation, personality, and development

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Goals: an approach to motivation and achievement

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Growth

scientific article published on June 2015

Growth mindset tempers the effects of poverty on academic achievement

scientific article published on 18 July 2016

Helplessness in early childhood: the role of contingent worth

scientific article published on December 1995

Implicit Theories and Their Role in Judgments and Reactions: A Word From Two Perspectives

Implicit Theories of Interest: Finding Your Passion or Developing It?

scientific article published on 06 September 2018

Implicit Theories: Elaboration and Extension of the Model

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Implicit theories about willpower predict self-regulation and grades in everyday life

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Implicit theories of personality and attributions of hostile intent: a meta-analysis, an experiment, and a longitudinal intervention

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Implicit theories, attributions, and coping: A meaning system approach

Individual differences in achievement goals among young children

scientific article published in December 1994

Is Education a Fundamental Right? People's Lay Theories About Intellectual Potential Drive Their Positions on Education

scientific article published on 15 June 2017

Is Psychology Headed in the Right Direction? Yes, No, and Maybe

scientific article published in July 2017

Judgments of the lucky across development and culture

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Lay dispositionism and implicit theories of personality

scientific article published on July 1, 1997

Learned helplessness in social situations

scientific article published in August 1980

Leveraging Mindsets to Promote Academic Achievement: Policy Recommendations

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Mechanisms of motivation-cognition interaction: challenges and opportunities

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Mind-set interventions are a scalable treatment for academic underachievement

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Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed

article by David Scott Yeager & Carol S. Dweck published October 2012 in Educational Psychologist

Mindsets and human nature: promoting change in the Middle East, the schoolyard, the racial divide, and willpower

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Misery Has More Company Than People Think: Underestimating the Prevalence of Others’ Negative Emotions

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Motivating voter turnout by invoking the self

scientific article published on July 18, 2011

Motivational processes affecting learning

Parent Praise to Toddlers Predicts Fourth Grade Academic Achievement via Children's Incremental Mindsets

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Parent praise to 1- to 3-year-olds predicts children's motivational frameworks 5 years later

scientific article published on 11 February 2013

Person theories and attention allocation: preferences for stereotypic versus counterstereotypic information

scientific article published in June 2001

Person versus process praise and criticism: implications for contingent self-worth and coping

scientific article published in May 1999

Praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance

scientific article published in July 1998

Praise for intelligence can undermine children's motivation and performance

article published in 1998

Prejudice: How It Develops and How It Can Be Undone

Promoting intergroup contact by changing beliefs: Group malleability, intergroup anxiety, and contact motivation

scientific article published on May 28, 2012

Promoting the Middle East peace process by changing beliefs about group malleability

scientific article published on August 25, 2011

Psychologically authentic versus inauthentic replication attempts

scientific article published on 18 October 2016

QnAs with Carol S. Dweck. Interview by Sujata Gupta

scientific article published on 16 August 2013

Race and the Fragility of the Legal Distinction between Juveniles and Adults

scientific article published on May 23, 2012

Relations among children's social goals, implicit personality theories, and responses to social failure

scientific article published in March 1997

Reply to Warneken: Social experience can illuminate early-emerging behaviors

scientific article published on 18 February 2015

Rethinking natural altruism: simple reciprocal interactions trigger children's benevolence

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Rethinking people's conceptions of mental life

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Self-theories and goals: their role in motivation, personality, and development.

scientific article published in January 1990

Sex differences in learned helplessness: II. The contingencies of evaluative feedback in the classroom and III. An experimental analysis

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Stereotype formation and endorsement: The role of implicit theories

Subtle linguistic cues affect children's motivation

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Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Testing the impact and durability of a group malleability intervention in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

scientific article published on 8 January 2018

The Origins of Children's Growth and Fixed Mindsets: New Research and a New Proposal

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

The development of trait explanations and self-evaluations in the academic and social domains

scientific article published in October 1986

The far-reaching effects of believing people can change: implicit theories of personality shape stress, health, and achievement during adolescence.

scientific article published in June 2014

The hidden-zero effect: representing a single choice as an extended sequence reduces impulsive choice

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The role of forgetting in undermining good intentions

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Theories of Willpower Affect Sustained Learning

scientific article published on June 22, 2012

Using Design Thinking to Improve Psychological Interventions: The Case of the Growth Mindset During the Transition to High School

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Violations of implicit theories and the sense of prediction and control: implications for motivated person perception

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Voicing conflict: preferred conflict strategies among incremental and entity theorists

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Weight beliefs and messages: Mindsets predict body-shame and anti-fat attitudes via attributions

What Predicts Children's Fixed and Growth Intelligence Mind-Sets? Not Their Parents' Views of Intelligence but Their Parents' Views of Failure

scientific article published on 25 April 2016

What can be learned from growth mindset controversies?

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

What happens after prejudice is confronted in the workplace? How mindsets affect minorities' and women's outlook on future social relations

scientific article published on 8 March 2018

Who accepts responsibility for their transgressions?

scientific article published on 24 September 2014

Who confronts prejudice?: the role of implicit theories in the motivation to confront prejudice

scientific article published on 15 June 2010

Why Interventions to Influence Adolescent Behavior Often Fail but Could Succeed

scientific article published in December 2017

Why do beliefs about intelligence influence learning success? A social cognitive neuroscience model

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Why do women opt out? Sense of belonging and women's representation in mathematics

scientific article published on January 30, 2012

Young children's vulnerability to self-blame and helplessness: relationship to beliefs about goodness

scientific article published in April 1992

“Prejudiced” behavior without prejudice? Beliefs about the malleability of prejudice affect interracial interactions

scientific article published on June 18, 2012