Carissa Romero

TL;DR: Brief growth-mind-set and sense-of-purpose interventions through online modules were intended to help students persist when they experienced academic difficulty and were predicted to be most beneficial for poorly performing students.

TL;DR: A US national experiment showed that a short, online, self-administered growth mindset intervention can increase adolescents’ grades and advanced course-taking, and identified the types of school that were poised to benefit the most.

TL;DR: The present research formalizes a methodology for redesigning and tailoring initial interventions and provides insight into how to teach a growth mindset more effectively during the transition to high school.

TL;DR: Although parents' early praise of inherent characteristics was not associated with children's later fixed-ability frameworks, parents' praise of children's effort at 14-38 months did predict incremental frameworks at 7-8 years, suggesting that causal mechanisms identified in experimental work may be operating in home environments.

TL;DR: Students who believed that emotions could be controlled reported fewer depressive symptoms and, if they began middle school with lower well-being, were more likely to feel better over time, suggesting exciting new pathways for intervention.