A growth-mindset-of-personality workshop reduced retaliatory aggression and increased prosocial behavior among urban high school students¶

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q3 i? Relative to a no-treatment control and a coping-skills control, an in-person growth-mindset-of-personality workshop substantially reduced the amount of hot sauce students allocated to a peer who excluded them, and increased prosocial notes, with teacher ratings confirming the findings. → Dweck 2019

Evidence¶

Dweck 2019¶

Dweck, C. S., & Yeager, D. S. (2019). Mindsets: A View From Two Eras. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691618804166

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Experimental study (Yeager et al., 2013) in an urban high school: six ~45-min face-to-face workshop sessions, then a Cyberball exclusion paradigm measuring hot-sauce allocation; the intervention "substantially reduced the amount of hot sauce allocated to the peer" versus both controls. No standardized effect size is printed.

"Relative to two control conditions—a no-treatment control and a control group that was taught best-in-class coping skills—the growth-mindset-of-personality intervention substantially reduced the amount of hot sauce allocated to the peer, signaling less retaliatory aggression."

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