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Research Summaries: Establishing Causality Using Longitudinal Hierarchical...
Today’s research summary is slightly technical. It is based on this paper [pdf] by Angela Duckworth et al that shows a causal relation between self-control and academic achievement. The Illustrated...
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Research Summaries: Personality Measurement and Assessment in Large Panel...
Today’s research summary looks at another paper [pdf] by Angela Duckworth et al this time focusing on whether it makes sense to include personality variables in long national longitudinal...
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Research Summaries: The Effect of Self-Distancing on Adaptive Versus...
Today’s research summary is based on a shortish paper [pdf] by Angela Duckworth et al (Walter Mischel of Marshmallow effect fame is a co-author!) which focuses on how viewing oneself from a distance,...
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Research Summaries: Mental contrasting facilitates academic performance in...
Today’s research summary builds on the work of Gabrielle Oettingen on WOOP/mental contrasting with implementation intentions. The paper [pdf] is co-authored by Angela Duckworth et al and successfully...
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Research Summaries: Role of test motivation in intelligence testing
IQ is used synonymous and interchangeably with intelligence; however in this paper [pdf] Angela Duckworth et al argue that non-cognitive factors like test motivation also affect the IQ scores and have...
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Research Summaries: Self-Control Protects Against Overweight Status in the...
Grit and self-control are the two character strengths on which Angela Duckworth focuses a lot, and this research summary is about a paper co-authored by Angela that shows how a lack of self-control can...
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Book Reviews: Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
I have read quite a few books that fall into the ‘hard work triumphs intelligence’ camp, such as ‘Peak’ by Anders Ericsson, ‘Talent is overrated‘ by Geoff Colvin and ‘Outliers‘ by Malcolm Gladwell. And...
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Research Summaries: Self-controlled children stay leaner in the transition to...
This research summary is similar to the earlier one where self-control predicted overweight status; Angela and team have co-authored a similar paper, though based on a different data set and...
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Research Summaries: Domain-specific temporal discounting and temptation
Today’s paper co-authored by Angela Duckworth again straddles the two worlds of psychology and economics. Temporal discounting or time preference is the preference people show towards immediate...
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Research Summaries: Can Adolescents Learn Self-control? Delay of...
Today’s research summary is based on a paper by Angela Duckworth and colleagues, and examines the nature of self-control as assessed by risk-taking, sensation-seeking, future time perspective and delay...
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