Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and by Carol S. Dweck

By Carol S. Dweck

This cutting edge textual content sheds gentle on how humans paintings -- why they typically functionality good and, at different occasions, behave in ways in which are self-defeating or destructive. The author presents her groundbreaking learn on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational styles and shows:

* How those styles originate in people's self-theories
* Their results for the individual -- for success, social relationships, and emotional well-being
* Their effects for society, from problems with human strength to stereotyping and intergroup relations
* The studies that create them



This amazing textual content is a must-read for researchers in social psychology, baby improvement, and schooling, and is suitable for either graduate and senior undergraduate scholars in those areas.

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