This case study investigated the mindset of three successful academic entrepreneurs at the University of Kentucky in relation to the status of the research commercialization process and in context with the university's general commercialization activity.
One of the day's speakers whose work illustrates the power of cross-disciplinary thinking to benefit children was Carol Dweck, PhD, Stanford professor of psychology, who has spent her career investigating how having a growth mindset — the belief that traits such as intelligence or health are not fixed, but can be changed with effort — helps kids succeed.
In addition to the resources wasted in investigating so many false alarms, a "crying wolf" mindset could diminish the attention paid to all screening test results, increasing the chance of missing a true-positive test result.
Jeffrey Augustine, a one-time Scientologist who now runs the Scientology Money Project, a website devoted to investigating the church's finances, said there is a mindset within Scientology deriving from Hubbard's belief that the church should determine laws.
At Harvard, she investigates cultural and individual mindsets about illness, biology and psychological well-being and aging.
We integrated the social-projection and stress-mindset literatures to investigate, for the first time, the effect of holding a stress-is-enhancing, versus a stress-is-debilitating, mindset on social judgments of a target's strain, on the perceiver's consequent perceptions of the target's promotability, and on his or her intention to voluntarily help the target.
Researchers who investigated managers with a fixed mindset (who believe that employees' attributes are innate and unchangeable) and those with a growth mindset (who believe that people can change) found that those who see employees' capabilities as fixed were disinclined to expend effort helping them develop and improve.
The goal of this project is to investigate if we can change peoples' mindsets using a technological intervention.
To our knowledge, this is the first study which experimentally investigates neurobiological correlates of how a person's mindset might influence the way of decision making.
People that use them properly tend to have a very positive mindset about them and their benefits, whereas people that do not investigate them beforehand or use them improperly tend to be very unhappy with their performance.
O'Keefe teamed up with Carol Dweck, a pioneer in the field of mindset research, and Greg Walton, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, to investigate why some people succeed at pursuing and developing interests, while others don't.
