How your brain reacts to mistakes depends on your mindset
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 05:30
in Psychology & Sociology
(Medical Xpress) -- Whether you think you can or think you can't -- you're right, said Henry Ford. A new study, to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people who think they can learn from their mistakes have a different brain reaction to mistakes than people who think intelligence is fixed.