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

@article{Haimovitz2016WhatPC,
  title={What Predicts Children’s Fixed and Growth Intelligence Mind-Sets? Not Their Parents’ Views of Intelligence but Their Parents’ Views of Failure},
  author={K. Haimovitz and C. Dweck},
  journal={Psychological Science},
  year={2016},
  volume={27},
  pages={859-869}
}
  • K. Haimovitz, C. Dweck
  • Published 2016
  • Psychology
  • Psychological Science
    • Children’s intelligence mind-sets (i.e., their beliefs about whether intelligence is fixed or malleable) robustly influence their motivation and learning. Yet, surprisingly, research has not linked parents’ intelligence mind-sets to their children’s. We tested the hypothesis that a different belief of parents—their failure mind-sets—may be more visible to children and therefore more prominent in shaping their beliefs. In Study 1, we found that parents can view failure as debilitating or… CONTINUE READING
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