How do high-achieving students, productive employees, or top-notch athletes achieve success? Can we identify the mindsets and behaviors that make them effective, and harness this knowledge to help many more people succeed at their goals?

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Our research aims to understand the mindsets and behaviors that support effective goal pursuit by:

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(1) identifying the mindsets and behaviors that foster learning, performance, and well-being,

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(2) leveraging multiple methods (lab experiments, survey methods, and field RCTs) to empirically establish the processes through which they work, and 

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(3) designing scalable, psychologically precise interventions to promote the adoption of adaptive mindsets and behaviors.