Since the reform and opening up fulfilled more than 40 years, the Chinese government has attached greater importance to higher education, and higher education has entered a stage of steady development. The total number of university students has amounted to nearly 47 million, ranking the first in ...
Social psychologist Carol Dweck, PhD, tested the effects of overpraise on 400 fifth grades while she was at Columbia University.She found that kids praised for “trying hard” did better on the tests and were more likely to take on difficult assignments than those praised for being “smart”....
Social psychologist Carol Dweck, PhD, tested the effects of overpraise on 400 fifth graders while she was at Columbia University. She found that kids praised for "trying hard" did better on tests and were more likely to take on difficult assignments than those praised for being "smart". ...
A psychologist working with children advised that attachment trauma is not immediately apparent, indicating a need for psychologists to treat TGT later in psychotherapy. “You might be dealing with something badly wrong in their attachment early on and it might have to do with, it usually has to...
One of the most popular personality tests in the world is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a psychological-assessment system based on the work of psychologist Carl Jung. Two and a half million Americans a year take the Myers-Briggs test. The Myers-Briggs assessment is designed to meas...
Daniel Anderson, a famous psychologist, believes it’s important to distinguish television’s influences on children from those of the family. We tend to blame TV, he says, for problems it doesn’t really cause, overlooking our own roles in shaping children’s minds. One traditional belief abo...
A few years ago a young mother watched her husband diaper(给...换尿布) their firstborn son. "You don't have to be so unhappy about it," she protested. "You can talk to him and smile a little." The father, who happened to be a psychologist, answered firmly, "He has nothing to ...
For years we have been told that encouraging a child’s self-respect is important to his or her success in life. But child experts are now learning that too much praise can lead to the opposite effect. Praise-aholic kids who expect it at every turn may become teens who seek the same ...
Determined to clear Mia's name, Jenn sets out to deconstruct the events leading up to the murder by employing strategies used by her fictional sleuths. With the help from the university's reference librarian, a local psychologist, and the manager of the school's main cafeteria, Jenn cleverly...
For over 40 years, I've been a clinical social worker and a developmental psychologist. And it seemed almost natural for me to go into the helping professions. My parents had taught me to do good for others. And so I devoted my career to working with families in some of the toughest ...