Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation | Personality | and Development... Carol Dweck

Their role in motivation, personality and development by Carol Dweck, you will learn what promotes adaptive motivation? four beliefs and four truths about the ability, Success, Praise and Confidence.

When Failure undermines and when Failure Motivate, Helpless and Mastery-Oriented Risponses and more...

This innovative text sheds light on how people work -- why they sometimes function well and, at other times, behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive. The author presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows:
How these patterns originate in people's self-theories
Their consequences for the person -- for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being
Their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations
The experiences that create them