Mind your errors: Evidence for a neural mechanism linking growth mind-set to adaptive posterror adjustments

Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1484-1489

  Moser, Jason S ^a   Schroder, Hans S ^a   Heeter, Carrie ^b   Moran, Tim P ^a   Lee, Yu Hao ^b  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive processes; electrophysiology; individual differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 83055168363     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611419520     Document Type: Article

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