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title: Growth Mindset
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      Dweck defines a growth mindset as the belief that people can develop basic qualities through effort, strategies,
      and help from others.
    source_title: "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success"
    source_url: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/44330/mindset-by-carol-s-dweck-phd/
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      Yeager and Dweck review research on how beliefs about whether personal characteristics can be developed relate to
      student resilience.
    source_title: "Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed"
    source_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691612455878
    confidence: medium
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      Sisk and colleagues meta-analyzed growth-mindset interventions and reported that effects vary by sample and
      intervention context.
    source_title: To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth Mind-Sets Important to Academic Achievement?
    source_url: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617739704
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  - title: "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success"
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    year: 2006
    url: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/44330/mindset-by-carol-s-dweck-phd/
    institution: Random House
  - title: "Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed"
    type: academic_paper
    year: 2012
    url: https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691612455878
    doi: 10.1177/1745691612455878
    institution: Perspectives on Psychological Science
  - title: To What Extent and Under Which Circumstances Are Growth Mind-Sets Important to Academic Achievement?
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    year: 2018
    url: https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617739704
    doi: 10.1177/0956797617739704
    institution: Psychological Science
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## TL;DR

Growth mindset is now presented as a bounded psychology concept rather than a universal success claim. The article uses Dweck's book for the concept, Yeager and Dweck for resilience framing, and Sisk et al. for a more cautious intervention-evidence summary.

## Evidence Notes

- Dweck anchors the core definition.
- Yeager and Dweck anchor the student-resilience framing.
- Sisk et al. anchors the evidence-variation caveat for interventions.

## Further Reading

- [Mindset: The New Psychology of Success](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/44330/mindset-by-carol-s-dweck-phd/)
- [Mindsets That Promote Resilience](https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691612455878)
- [Growth mindsets and academic achievement meta-analysis](https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617739704)