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How Your Brain Reacts To Mistakes Depends On Your Mindset
Association for Psychological Science ^ | September 29, 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 09/30/2011 12:22:48 PM PDT by decimon

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t—you’re right,” said Henry Ford. A new study, to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people who think they can learn from their mistakes have a different brain reaction to mistakes than people who think intelligence is fixed.

“One big difference between people who think intelligence is malleable and those who think intelligence is fixed is how they respond to mistakes,” says Jason S. Moser, of Michigan State University, who collaborated on the new study with Hans S. Schroder, Carrie Heeter, Tim P. Moran, and Yu-Hao Lee. Studies have found that people who think intelligence is malleable say things like, “When the going gets tough, I put in more effort” or “If I make a mistake, I try to learn and figure it out.” On the other hand, people who think that they can’t get smarter will not take opportunities to learn from their mistakes. This can be a problem in school, for example; a student who thinks her intelligence is fixed will think it’s not worth bothering to try harder after she fails a test.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: brain; brainreaction; mistakes
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To: Jack Hydrazine
Does that Mind Set come with a free set of Mental Blocks?

No, the blocks take a lot of jack.

21 posted on 09/30/2011 1:35:27 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SMARTY

That sounds like the PHB-ette I once had at University Dept here in SC.


22 posted on 09/30/2011 1:49:06 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: WayneS
Well, at least nobody can call you a complete idiot.

≤}B^)

23 posted on 10/01/2011 2:24:05 AM PDT by Erasmus (I love "The Raven," but then what do I know? I'm just a poetaster.)
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