Growth mindset is not associated with scholastic aptitude in a large sample of university applicants

Bahník, Štěpán; Vranka, Marek

doi:10.31219/osf.io/ptf97

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“…Research casts doubt on social priming (Gerber et al 2017;Pashler et al 2012) or the reality of power posing (Jonas et al 2017). And research questions the degree to which intelligence mindsets (Bahník and Vranka 2017) or stereotype threat (Finnigan and Corker 2016;Flore and Wicherts 2015) explain performance outcomes. Though these are but a few examples, and the issue requires a systematic review to properly address, the present research on implicit attitudes joins a trend that lends credence to view that it is the conscious rather than unconscious mind that often takes priority in determining behavior.…”

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Implicit attitudes and the ability argument

Buckwalter¹

2018

Philos Stud

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According to one picture of the mind, decisions and actions are largely the result of automatic cognitive processing beyond our ability to control. This picture is in tension with a foundational principle in ethics that moral responsibility for behavior requires the ability to control it. The discovery of implicit attitudes contributes to this tension. According to the ability argument against moral responsibility, if we cannot control implicit attitudes, and implicit attitudes cause behavior, then we cannot be morally responsible for that behavior. The purpose of this paper is to refute the ability argument. Drawing on both scientific evidence in cognitive science and philosophical arguments in ethics and action theory, I argue that it is invalid and unsound because current evidence is insufficient to establish the premises that (1) implicit attitudes are uncontrollable, (2) that they significantly cause behavior, (3) that responsibility always requires ability, and (4) that even if uncontrollable attitudes did fully cause behavior, this entails that the behavior they cause is uncontrollable. The rejection of the ability argument questions the priority of the unconscious over the conscious mind in cognitive science, deprioritizes ability in theories of moral responsibility in ethics, and provides a strong reason to uphold moral responsibility for implicitly biased behavior.

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Implicit attitudes and the ability argument

Buckwalter¹

2018

Philos Stud

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“…Despite evidence for links between growth mindsets and reduced psychological distress as well as active coping (Burnette et al, 2020), within an academic context, recent work questions the magnitude of impact on scholastic aptitude (e.g. Bahník & Vranka, 2017; Sisk et al, 2018) and within stigma‐relevant domains, research highlights the potential dark side of growth mindsets (Hooper et al, 2018; Hoyt & Burnette, 2020).…”

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Well‐being in the time of COVID‐19: Do metaphors and mindsets matter?

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Communications about the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID‐19) often employ metaphors, which can help people understand complex issues. For example, public health messages may focus on “fighting” the disease, attempting to rouse people to action by instilling a sense of urgency. In contrast, change‐focused metaphors may foster growth mindsets and self‐efficacy—cornerstones of well‐being and action. We randomly assigned participants to read one of two articles—either an article about coronavirus that focused on fighting the war or an article that highlighted the possibility of change. In Study 1 ( N = 426), participants who read the war, relative to the change, message reported lower growth mindsets and self‐efficacy and these in turn, predicted lower well‐being and weaker intentions to engage in health behaviours. In Study 2, ( N = 702), we sought to replicate findings and included a no treatment control. We failed to replicate the effects of message condition, although both messages predicted greater self‐efficacy compared to the control. Similar to Study 1, growth mindsets predicted intentions to engage in recommended health behaviours and self‐efficacy predicted both well‐being and action. We discuss theoretical reasons for discrepancies as well as practical applications for developing public health communications.

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“…In recent years, a growth mindset has gained attention to the study of individual success predictions [3,4] and found that not only are the key factors affecting effective learning of mathematics but also interacting with some factors that influence mathematics learning in the mediation effect [5,6]. However, these findings have a lack of linkage between how the growth mindset influences in the same effect as variables that often influence mathematical learning results.…”

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The Mediating Role of Growth Mindset in the Causal Model of the Factors Affecting the Mathematics Learning of Ninth-Grade Students

Damrongpanit¹

2020

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Growth mindset is not associated with scholastic aptitude in a large sample of university applicants

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Implicit attitudes and the ability argument

Implicit attitudes and the ability argument

Well‐being in the time of COVID‐19: Do metaphors and mindsets matter?

The Mediating Role of Growth Mindset in the Causal Model of the Factors Affecting the Mathematics Learning of Ninth-Grade Students

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