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Professor Carol Dweck opens press conference on OECD PISA report on growth mindset

This new report “Sky’s the limit: Growth mindset, students, and schools in PISA” provides analyses on student growth mindset. PISA collected international comparable data on “growth mindset” from nearly 80 countries/economies for the first time in 2018. The report sheds lights on how educators, policy makers and researchers can further support the potential of students around the world.

In the News

Does ‘harsh parenting’ lead to smaller brains?

Repeatedly getting angry, hitting, shaking or yelling at children is linked with smaller brain structures in adolescence, according to a new study published in Development and Psychopathology. Professor Ian H. Gotlib and other Stanford researchers joined a research team from Université de Montréal and the CHU Sainte‑Justine Research Centre to complete the study.

Featured Publications

"Design issues and solutions for stop-signal data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study " by Patrick G. Bissett, McKenzie P. Hagen, Henry M. Jones, and Russell A. Poldrack, published in March 2021 in eLife.
"Do New Romantic Couples Use More Similar Language Over Time? Evidence from Intensive Longitudinal Text Messages" by Miriam Brinberg and Nilam Ram, published in March 2021 in Journal of Communication.
"Differential spatial computations in ventral and lateral face-selective regions are scaffolded by structural connections" by Dawn Finzi, Jesse Gomez, Marisa Nordt, Alex A. Rezai, Sonia Poltoratski, and Kalanit Grill-Spector, published in April 2021 in Nature Communications.

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