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Accepting and embracing stress may just help us improve our mental health.
To overcome seemingly insurmountable odds, sportspeople need to enter a certain state of mind.
Feel like you’re facing too many pandemic-related unknowns? Reframing what it means to not know can help you break the uncertainty-anxiety connection.
The growth mindset theory holds a person’s beliefs about their ability can be developed through effort. The fixed mindset holds a person’s abilities are fixed and can’t be changed.
Maths anxiety can be made a thing of the past, as new research shows.
While schools have adopted ‘growth mindset’ interventions and millions of dollars have been spent to see if they work, an analysis of the available research shows they have only a small impact.
Human beings seem to be born wearing rose-colored glasses. Psychologists are interested in how this bias toward the positive works in the very young – and how it fades over time.
A new study highlights how the condition of your kitchen may affect unhealthy snacking.
Could a psychological approach alleviate the misery of the cold, dark wet winter?
New Year’s resolutions are one thing. But what does it take to devote your life to a work goal with such a long time horizon you might never reach it in your lifetime?
New research found that a programme aimed at changing pupils’ mindsets had no significant impact on their attainment.
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