19 Facts About Carol Dweck

Carol Susan Dweck was born on October 17,1946 and is an American psychologist.

Carol Dweck holds the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professorship of Psychology at Stanford University.

Carol Dweck was on the faculty at the University of Illinois, Harvard, and Columbia before joining the Stanford University faculty in 2004.

Carol Dweck was named an Association for Psychological Science 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.

Carol Dweck's father worked in the export-import business and her mother in advertising.

Carol Dweck was the only daughter and the middle sibling of three children.

Carol Dweck later described becoming "increasingly afraid to risk her reputation as one of the most intelligent children in the class", by avoiding participation in a spelling bee and a French competition.

Carol Dweck graduated from Barnard College in 1967, and earned a Ph.

Carol Dweck later popularized the concept in her 2006 non-academic book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

In 2012, Carol Dweck defined fixed and growth mindsets, in interview, in this way:.

Carol Dweck has described fixed-mindset individuals as dreading failure because it is a negative statement on their basic abilities, while growth mindset individuals don't mind or fear failure as much because they realize their performance can be improved and learning comes from failure.

Carol Dweck has written that a common misunderstanding is that the growth mindset is "just about effort".

Carol Dweck warns of the dangers of praising intelligence as it puts children in a fixed mindset, and they will not want to be challenged because they will not want to look stupid or make a mistake.

Carol Dweck's findings have been reported in journals such as Psychological Science and Nature, with research teams led by Carol Dweck.

Carol Dweck was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, and received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association in 2011.

Carol Dweck was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Carol Dweck was named an Association for Psychological Science James McKeen Cattell Fellow in 2013.

Carol Dweck received an APS Mentor Award in 2019, and was named an APS William James Fellow in 2020.

Carol Dweck is married to David Goldman, who is a national theatre director and critic and the founder and director of the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University.