 Mindset: The New Psychology of Successreviewed by Peter T. Coleman — September 29, 2006  Title: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success Author(s): Carol S. Dweck Publisher: Random House, New York ISBN: 1400062756 , Pages: 276, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com For decades, Carol Dweck, a leading researcher in psychology, has published her pioneering work on motivation and personality in top scholarly journals and texts. Her research on implicit theories of intelligence has resulted in a variety of important practical applications, particularly in the classroom. In her new book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Random House, 2006), Dweck brings together her extensive body of research into one narrative, and for the first time, introduces her work to the general public. Dweck’s research concerns a basic set of beliefs, or mindsets, that she has found to have profound and pervasive effects on behavior. She opens the book by telling a story of the first time she encountered one of these beliefs—one quite different from her own—that led children to see failure as a gift. At the time, she was conducting research on how people coped with failure and, much to her... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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