Carol Dweck
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Carol Susan Dweck (born October 17, 1946) is an American psychologist. She holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology at Stanford University. Dweck is known for her work on motivation and mindset. She was on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Harvard, and Columbia before joining the Stanford University faculty in 2004. She was named an Association for Psychological Science (APS) James McKeen Cattell Fellow in 2013, an APS Mentor Awardee in 2019, and an APS William James Fellow in 2020, and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2012.
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Born | Carol Susan Dweck (1946-10-17) October 17, 1946 (age 77) |
Nationality (legal) | American |
Alma mater | Barnard College Yale University (PhD) |
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Fields | Social psychology Developmental psychology |
Institutions | Stanford University Columbia University Harvard University University of Illinois |
Thesis | The Role of Expectations and Attributions in the Alleviation of Learned Helplessness in a Problem-Solving Situation (1972) |
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