Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation

Titlul complet: Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development (Essays in Social Psychology)

Autor: Carol Dweck

Cartea in Google Books:

This book sheds light on how people work-why sometimes they function well and sometimes they behave in ways that are self-defeating or destructive.

Toward this end, Carol Dweck presents her groundbreaking research on adaptive and maladaptive cognitive-motivational patterns, showing: how these patterns originate in people’s self-theories; their consequences for the person-for achievement, social relationships, and emotional well-being; their consequences for society, from issues of human potential to stereotyping and intergroup relations; the experiences that create them.

Throughout, Dweck shows how examining people’s self-theories illuminates basic issues of human motivation, social cognition, personality, the self, mental health, and development.

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