Why You Cannot Believe Your Way Into Learning

Why growth mindset works in the laboratory, fails in the classroom, and reveals something true about both.

For most people, the hardest thing to understand about learning is that the strategies which pay off in the long run often feel like failure in the moment, while the ones that produce no lasting benefit often feel like success in the present. A new paper in Educational Psychology Review applies this uncomfortable truth to the most popular intervention in modern education, growth mindset, and finds it wanting: as a standalone treatment it produces effects on achievement that are vanishingly small and disappear entirely under proper scrutiny. Growth Mindset strategies require little that is…

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