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Dawn Melzer

@dawnmelzer.bsky.social

Professor of Psychology at Sacred Heart University. Research focus on child and canine cognition. Lover of concerts/music/outdoors.

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The evolution of mindset research: Forging connections across individuals, situations, and cultures | Request PDF Request PDF | The evolution of mindset research: Forging connections across individuals, situations, and cultures | Mindset theory was originally developed to address a puzzling question of motivation...

Check out Kathy Emerson’s fabulous Substack post summarizing our recent Advances chapter, which traces how mindset research has evolved from focusing on individuals, to recognizing how mindsets are situationally triggered, to understanding how mindsets are embedded in cultures.

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β€œDancing Through Life” is exhilarating especially if beta waves show the way What makes you happy? For me: The sun, the ocean, cute animals, musicals, and all things Wicked. But, how do you know you are happy? Glinda asks this of Elphaba at the beginning of β€œDefying Gravity…

πŸ€ Understanding the mechanisms behind reward processing in rats. Post by Heather Manitzas Hill on #psynomCABN paper by Miranda Koloski, Sid Hulyalkar, Sam Barnes, Jyoti Mishra Dhakshin Ramanathan

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Santa’s motto this year must have been β€œStrike hard. Strike first….” 🐍

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A unified account of why optimism declines in childhood Nature Reviews Psychology - Optimism declines across early childhood, but there is no theoretical account for why such changes occur. In this Perspective, Leonard and Sommerville discuss and...

New paper with the BRILLIANT and always amazing @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social! Developmental declines in optimism and their potential causes:

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Thank you!

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I would love to be added too -thanks!

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