Theories of willpower affect sustained learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Miller, Eric M ^a   Walton, Gregory M ^a   Dweck, Carol S ^a   Job, Veronika ^b   Trzesniewski, Kali H ^c   McClure, Samuel M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MENTAL TASK; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL STUDY; WILLPOWER; WORKING MEMORY;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MOTIVATION;

EID: 84862687084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038680     Document Type: Article

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