Author

Carol S. Dweck

Stanford psychology professor whose research created the growth-mindset concept

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Growth mindset researchKnown for

Dr. Carol S. Dweck is widely regarded as one of the world's leading researchers in the fields of personality, social psychology and developmental psychology. She has been the William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and is now the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarly bookSelf-Theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Developmentwas named Book of the Year by the World Education Fellowship. Her work has been featured in such publications asThe New Yorker, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, andThe Boston Globe, and she has appeared onTodayand 20/20. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto, California.

Born1946 · New York City, USA

Notable works Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

HonoursInaugural Yidan Prize for Education Research (2017)

Becoming is better than being.— Mindset: The New Psychology of Success