Growth Mindset: The Belief That Changes What Failure Means
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Growth Mindset: The Belief That Changes What Failure Means

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 11 July 2026 · View published page ↗

In the early 1980s, Carol Dweck watched children in her University of Illinois lab respond to difficult problems.

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co-authored with Ellen Leggett in the Journal of Personality and Social P…
+co-authored with Ellen Leggett in Psychological Review
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Dweck and Leggett's 1988 paper in the Journal of Personality and Soci…
+Dweck and Leggett's 1988 paper in Psychological Review
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Carol Dweck was a psychology professor at Columbia University
+Carol Dweck was a psychology professor at the University of Illinois
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Why this is better

3 of 4 named corrections were already live and correct (Psychological Review journal name x2, Li & Bates 2019 correctly in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General in body and bibliography). However, found and fixed a genuine leftover: a SECOND, separate body sentence later in the article still said 'the finding that Dweck first noticed in her Columbia laboratory in the early 1980s', contradicting the correctly-fixed opening sentence establishing she was at the University of Illinois in the early 1980s (only joining Columbia around 1989). This same fabrication was independently repeated in the excerpt and meta_description ('In the 1980s, Carol Dweck watched children in her Columbia lab...') and in the seo_keywords field ('Dweck Leggett 1988 JPSP' - wrong journal abbreviation for the corrected 1988 paper). Fixed all four locations to 'University of Illinois', verified clean on fresh re-fetch and live rendered page.

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