title: Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development (Essays in Social Psychology)
author: Carol Dweck
description: "Based on extensive research with children and young adults, this book examines adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns and shows how these patterns originate in people's self theories; their consequences for one's achievment, social relationships, and emotional well-being; thier consequences for society; and the experiences that create these cognitive-motivational patterns."<br />-"Resources in Education <br />"What we have here is no ordinary scholarly psychology volume. Ever so rarely, we are offered a psychology book that is so beautifully written, lucidly organized, and elegant in its description of ideas.... I see many uses for this wonderful volume. Instead of having to put together a rather large stack of reprints to introduce students to her groundbreaking work, I now can refer them to something far better -- the author's view of how her work has developed over the years."<br />-"Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology <br />"[This book] describes pathbreaking research in a style that is accessible to many audiences. It calls into question some of the most widely-held beliefs . . . about effective practices for maximizing children's self-confidence and learning."<br />-Deborah Stipek, "UCLA <br />"The book is central to basic issues in social, personality, and developmental psychology. Indeed, it is like a guided tour through the scenic terrain of Carol's fascinating program of research. The writing is lively and engaging and the organization is unusually clear. The examples are well-chosen and intuitively compelling; they are easy to relate to our own lives and to the people that we know."<br />-Diane N. Ruble, "New York University <br />"[This book] is simply among thebest book in psychology I've read during the past year or two. It's superb. . . I could hardly put [it] down."<br />-Robert J. Sternberg, "Yale University <br />
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  Carol Dweck is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading researchers
  in the fields of personality, social psychology and developmental
  psychology. She has been the William B. Ransford Professor of Psychology
  at Columbia University and is now the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor
  of Psychology at Stanford University and a member of the American
  Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her scholarly book Self-Theories: Their
  Role in Motivation, Personality and Development was named Book of the
  Year by the World Education Fellowship. Her work has been featured in
  such publications as the New Yorker, Time, New York Times, Washington
  Post and Boston Globe. She lives with her husband in Palo Alto, California.
  
   
   
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  First published in the US in 2006 by Random House, an imprint of The Random
  House Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc., New York
  Published in hardcover in the US by Ballantine, an imprint of The Random House
  Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc., New