Angela Duckworth
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American psychologist awarded MacArthur Fellowship
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Angela Lee Duckworth is an American academic, psychologist, and popular science author. She is the Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies grit and self-control. She is also the Founder and former CEO of Character Lab, a not-for-profit whose mission is to advance the science and practice of character development.
Angela Duckworth's Published Works
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Published Works
- Grit: perseverance and passion for long-term goals. (2007) (4484)
- The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits (2008) (2096)
- Self-Discipline Outdoes IQ in Predicting Academic Performance of Adolescents (2005) (2068)
- Development and Validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit–S) (2009) (2065)
- Personality Psychology and Economics (2011) (1418)
- Self-discipline gives girls the edge : Gender in self-discipline, grades, and achievement test scores (2006) (970)
- Positive psychology in clinical practice. (2005) (936)
- An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance. (2013) (861)
- A Meta-Analysis of the Convergent Validity of Self-Control Measures. (2011) (803)
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance (2016) (782)
- Self-Control and Grit (2014) (535)
- Measurement Matters (2015) (534)
- A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement (2019) (533)
- The grit effect: predicting retention in the military, the workplace, school and marriage (2013) (528)
- Deliberate Practice Spells Success (2011) (389)
- Positive predictors of teacher effectiveness (2009) (386)
- Unpacking grit: Motivational correlates of perseverance and passion for long-term goals (2014) (382)
- What No Child Left Behind Leaves Behind: The Roles of IQ and Self-Control in Predicting Standardized Achievement Test Scores and Report Card Grades. (2012) (381)
- More than resisting temptation: Beneficial habits mediate the relationship between self-control and positive life outcomes. (2015) (365)
- Situational Strategies for Self-Control (2016) (360)
- True Grit: Trait-Level Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals Predicts Effectiveness and Retention among Novice Teachers (2014) (352)
- Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale (2016) (337)
- Boring but important: a self-transcendent purpose for learning fosters academic self-regulation. (2014) (328)
- Role of test motivation in intelligence testing (2011) (300)
- Self‐regulation strategies improve self‐discipline in adolescents: benefits of mental contrasting and implementation intentions (2011) (299)
- Can Adolescents Learn Self-control? Delay of Gratification in the Development of Control over Risk Taking (2010) (243)
- Empirical identification of the major facets of Conscientiousness (2009) (238)
- Promise and Paradox (2016) (223)
- Self-Control and Academic Achievement. (2019) (221)
- Establishing Causality Using Longitudinal Hierarchical Linear Modeling: An Illustration Predicting Achievement From Self-Control (2010) (212)
- The significance of self-control (2011) (209)
- Conscientiousness: origins in childhood? (2014) (206)
- Self-Control in School-Age Children (2014) (168)
- Unpacking Self-Control. (2015) (159)
- Self-Regulation and School Success (2013) (154)
- Is It Really Self-Control? Examining the Predictive Power of the Delay of Gratification Task (2013) (152)
- A new life-span approach to conscientiousness and health: combining the pieces of the causal puzzle. (2014) (140)
- Advanced, Analytic, Automated (AAA) Measurement of Engagement During Learning (2017) (134)
- A megastudy of text-based nudges encouraging patients to get vaccinated at an upcoming doctor’s appointment (2021) (118)
- The mixed effects of online diversity training (2019) (115)
- Self-controlled children stay leaner in the transition to adolescence (2010) (115)
- Promise and Paradox: Measuring Students’ Non-cognitive Skills and the Impact of Schooling (2014) (112)
- Who Does Well in Life? Conscientious Adults Excel in Both Objective and Subjective Success (2012) (110)
- Self-control as a protective factor against overweight status in the transition from childhood to adolescence. (2010) (107)
- A Stitch in Time: Strategic Self-Control in High School and College Students. (2016) (105)
- Beyond Willpower: Strategies for Reducing Failures of Self-Control (2018) (102)
- From Fantasy to Action (2013) (101)
- Domain-specific temporal discounting and temptation (2010) (100)
- Resisting Everything except Temptation: Evidence and an Explanation for Domain–specific Impulsivity (2012) (99)
- Life Stress Impairs Self-Control in Early Adolescence (2013) (97)
- Domain-specific impulsivity in school-age children. (2013) (94)
- A tripartite taxonomy of character: Evidence for intrapersonal, interpersonal, and intellectual competencies in children. (2017) (92)
- The Academic Diligence Task (ADT): Assessing Individual Differences in Effort on Tedious but Important Schoolwork. (2014) (82)
- The effect of self-distancing on adaptive versus maladaptive self-reflection in children. (2011) (80)
- The "Batman Effect": Improving Perseverance in Young Children. (2017) (76)
- Temperament in the Classroom (2012) (70)
- Too much of a good thing? Exploring the inverted-U relationship between self-control and happiness. (2018) (66)
- Mental contrasting facilitates academic performance in school children (2011) (65)
- Why High School Grades Are Better Predictors of On-Time College Graduation Than Are Admissions Test Scores: The Roles of Self-Regulation and Cognitive Ability (2019) (60)
- Will Not Want: Self-Control Rather than Motivation Explains the Female Advantage in Report Card Grades. (2015) (58)
- Fostering Grit: Perceived School Goal-Structure Predicts Growth in Grit and Grades. (2018) (57)
- Cognitive and noncognitive predictors of success (2019) (56)
- Beliefs About Stress Attenuate the Relation Among Adverse Life Events, Perceived Distress, and Self-Control. (2018) (54)
- Personality, Lifetime Earnings, and Retirement Wealth (2010) (50)
- Using wise interventions to motivate deliberate practice. (2016) (49)
- Spontaneous Self-Distancing and Adaptive Self-Reflection Across Adolescence. (2015) (48)
- The development of grit and growth mindset during adolescence. (2020) (45)
- Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science (2021) (44)
- The Future of Women in Psychological Science (2020) (44)
- The Science and Practice of Self-Control (2017) (43)
- Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work (2021) (39)
- Personality Measurement and Assessment in Large Panel Surveys (2011) (37)
- Evaluating Fairness and Generalizability in Models Predicting On-Time Graduation from College Applications (2019) (35)
- (Over and) beyond high-stakes testing. (2009) (34)
- A brief behavioral measure of frustration tolerance predicts academic achievement immediately and two years later. (2019) (34)
- The effects of relative and absolute age in the measurement of grit from 9th to 12th grade (2018) (33)
- Survivor mission: Do those who survive have a drive to thrive at work? (2014) (32)
- The Mechanics of Human Achievement. (2015) (32)
- How can we inspire nations of learners? An investigation of growth mindset and challenge-seeking in two countries. (2020) (30)
- Dear Abby: Should I Give Advice or Receive It? (2018) (25)
- A 680,000-person megastudy of nudges to encourage vaccination in pharmacies (2022) (25)
- A large-scale field experiment shows giving advice improves academic outcomes for the advisor (2019) (25)
- Intelligence is not enough: Non -IQ predictors of achievement (2006) (25)
- Personality Traits and Economic Preparation for Retirement (2012) (24)
- A Mega-Study of Text-Based Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated at an Upcoming Doctor’s Appointment (2021) (24)
- Domain Specificity in Self-Control (2015) (24)
- Personality and Response to the Financial Crisis (2011) (23)
- Prospectively predicting 4-year college graduation from student applications (2018) (22)
- Individual differences in the effectiveness of self‐distancing for young children's emotion regulation (2018) (21)
- The mindful adolescent: Developmental changes in nonreactivity to inner experiences and its association with emotional well-being. (2020) (21)
- Focusing on the future from afar: Self-distancing from future stressors facilitates adaptive coping. (2019) (20)
- Do as You're Told! Facets of Agreeableness and Early Adult Outcomes for Inner-City Boys. (2013) (20)
- Students Attending School Remotely Suffer Socially, Emotionally, and Academically (2021) (19)
- Revisiting the Factor Structure of Grit: A Commentary on Duckworth and Quinn (2009) (2021) (18)
- World-class expertise: a developmental model. (2017) (18)
- Beliefs About Medication and Uptake of Preventive Therapy in Women at Increased Risk of Breast Cancer: Results From a Multicenter Prospective Study (2019) (17)
- Mindfulness, meet self-regulation: Boosting out-of-class meditation practice with brief action plans. (2016) (16)
- Cost-benefit models as the next, best option for understanding subjective effort (2013) (16)
- Self-Discipline is Empowering (2009) (13)
- A Behind-the-Scenes Guide to School-Based Research. (2014) (13)
- Some Middle School Students Want Behavior Commitment Devices (but Take-Up Does Not Affect Their Behavior) (2018) (12)
- An Experiment Evaluating the Impact of Large-Scale, High-Payoff Vaccine Regret Lotteries (2021) (10)
- Association of Grit Scores With Treatment Adherence and Biomarkers in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes (2019) (9)
- More Effort, Less Fatigue: The Role of Interest in Increasing Effort and Reducing Mental Fatigue (2018) (9)
- Measuring Mastery Behaviors at Scale: The Persistence, Effort, Resilience and Challenge-Seeking Task (PERC) (2020) (9)
- Self-Control Protects Against Overweight Status in the Transition from Childhood to Adolescence (2010) (9)
- Effects of Ownership Text Message Wording and Reminders on Receipt of an Influenza Vaccination (2022) (9)
- Using Psychological Science to Help Children Thrive (2019) (8)
- Validation of survey effort measures of grit and self-control in a sample of high school students (2020) (8)
- Teaching temptation bundling to boost exercise: A field experiment (2020) (7)
- MANUSCRIPT UNDER REVISION: Where and For Whom Can a Brief, Scalable Mindset Intervention Improve Adolescents’ Educational Trajectories? (2017) (7)
- Emotional Intelligence 101 (2019) (7)
- Language as Thought: Using Natural Language Processing to Model Noncognitive Traits that Predict College Success (2019) (7)
- Copy-Paste Prompts: A New Nudge to Promote Goal Achievement (2020) (7)
- Daily fluctuations in young children's persistence. (2020) (6)
- A Mega-Study of Text-Message Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated at their Pharmacy (2021) (6)
- Leveraging cognitive science to foster children’s persistence (2021) (6)
- Further Validation of Survey Effort Measures of Relevant Character Skills: Results from a Sample of High School Students (2018) (5)
- Educational Grit and Psychological Trauma (2017) (5)
- Ask, Don’t Tell (2020) (4)
- Boring but important (2014) (3)
- Can Grit be Taught? Lessons from a Nationwide Field Experiment with Middle-School Students (2021) (3)
- Experimental Paradigm for Measuring the Effects of Self-distancing in Young Children. (2019) (3)
- The Future of Employee Development: Fostering Developmental Relationships and Addressing Barriers (2020) (2)
- Scaling up experimental social, behavioral, and economic science (2021) (2)
- A 500,000-Person Experiment Evaluating the Impact of Geographically-Targeted, High-Payoff Vaccine Lotteries (2021) (2)
- The Mindful Adolescent: Developmental Changes during the Transition to High School, and Relations to Stress and Positive Affect (2018) (2)
- Is academic diligence domain-specific or domain-general? An investigation of the math, verbal, and spatial academic diligence tasks with middle schoolers (2020) (2)
- The Peak-End Rule (2019) (2)
- The Power of Proactivity (2019) (2)
- A Randomized Trial of Behavioral Nudges Delivered Through Text Messages to Increase Influenza Vaccination Among Patients With an Upcoming Primary Care Visit (2022) (2)
- Short Grit Scale (2016) (2)
- Decoding Emotions (2)
- Behavior Change. (2020) (2)
- Clarifying Character Education: Commentary on McGrath. (2018) (1)
- Planting a Growth Mindset (2019) (1)
- A guide to megastudies (2022) (1)
- Domain-Specific Impulsivity Scale (2015) (1)
- How Does High School Extracurricular Participation Predict Bachelor's Degree Attainment? It is Complicated. (2020) (1)
- The Mindful Adolescent: Developmental Changes in Nonreactivity to Inner Experiences during the Transition to High School, and Relations to Stress and Positive Affect (2018) (1)
- A field experiment on subgoal framing to boost volunteering: The trade-off between goal granularity and flexibility. (2022) (1)
- Self-control and SAT outcomes: Evidence from two national field studies (2022) (1)
- Practice Makes Perseverance (2019) (1)
- Choosing Wisely (2021) (1)
- The development of grit and growth mindset in Chinese children. (2022) (1)
- Beyond willpower (2021) (1)
- The Power of Praise (2022) (0)
- The Secret (2019) (0)
- Resilience (2018) (0)
- Cultivating Confidence (2020) (0)
- Oh, the Places You'll Go (2019) (0)
- Me to Me: Make comparisons with yourself, not with others (2022) (0)
- Situations Are Objective (2020) (0)
- Honest People (2022) (0)
- Thanks to Teachers (2020) (0)
- You Are What You Feed (2021) (0)
- Well-Being Matters: An index to measure student thriving (2021) (0)
- The Element of Surprise (2021) (0)
- Gratitude Nudge (2018) (0)
- Tough Teachers (2020) (0)
- Paying it Forward (2018) (0)
- V Is for Vulnerability (2020) (0)
- The Flynn Effect (2018) (0)
- Would You Rather (2018) (0)
- Environments, Past and Present (2020) (0)
- Think it, Do it - Developing an implementation mindset (2019) (0)
- Facing the Future (2020) (0)
- The Stories We Tell (2020) (0)
- Letting Kids Drive (2019) (0)
- Choosing Challenge (2020) (0)
- Lemons and Lemonade (2019) (0)
- Nature versus Nurture (2018) (0)
- Thank Teens for Giving (2019) (0)
- Social Media and Well-Being (2018) (0)
- Attention Is Selective (2020) (0)
- Wash Your Hands for Grandma (2020) (0)
- Headwinds Versus Tailwinds (2018) (0)
- The Why of Education (2020) (0)
- Roots and Shoots - Feeding curiosity (2021) (0)
- Honest People: Telling the truth, even when it hurts (2022) (0)
- Lost in Translation (2019) (0)
- Math Grid Perseverance Task (2018) (0)
- What Matters (2018) (0)
- Intelligence Plus Character (2019) (0)
- Grading Report Cards - What’s in an A—and what’s not (2019) (0)
- Loose ends. (1974) (0)
- View All Give and You Shall Receive - How to help teenagers help themselves (2019) (0)
- New Research From Psychological Science (2022) (0)
- Activity framing and motivation for easy and difficult practice. (2018) (0)
- Semantic consequences of talent and skill with HR population (2018) (0)
- Summer Is for Sampling - Planting the seeds of passion (2019) (0)
- Beyond the Self (2019) (0)
- Academic Diligence Task (2016) (0)
- Rituals as Resets (2020) (0)
- Practice, Practice, Practice (2019) (0)
- Health and Positive Social Relations Measure (2015) (0)
- Cognitive and Noncognitive Determinants of High School Grades, SAT Scores, and First Year College Persistence (2015) (0)
- Making Kindness Common (2019) (0)
- Proactivity in Your Inbox (2020) (0)
- Authoritative Mentors (2020) (0)
- The Paramecium Principle (2022) (0)
- See What’s Possible - Role models matter (2021) (0)
- Work Smarter, Sooner (2020) (0)
- Know Thyself (2008) (0)
- The Soul of Empathy (2019) (0)
- The Holy Trinity of Healthy Relationships (2020) (0)
- Character on Autopilot (2019) (0)
- The Crowd Within (2021) (0)
- Great Expectations - Ask for what you want (2019) (0)
- How to write for other people (2022) (0)
- Gauging Your Gratitude (2018) (0)
- Summer Is for Sampling (2019) (0)
- Imagine That (1999) (0)
- Meaning Is Subjective (2020) (0)
- Psychological Distance (2018) (0)
- All Together - Now The lesson of Swimmy (2021) (0)
- The Power of Questions (2019) (0)
- Let Teens Sleep In (2020) (0)
- Values Affirmation (2019) (0)
- Middle School Students Want Behavior Commitment Devices ( Even When Take-up Does Not Affect Their Behavior ) (2017) (0)
- Personality and Identity Formation in Childhood and Adolescence (2013) (0)
- Watch Your Words (2020) (0)
- Harnessing the IKEA - Effect How to make hard work a labor of love (2020) (0)
- Birds of a Feather (2018) (0)
- Making the Grade (2020) (0)
- Resilience - The power of positive relationships. (2018) (0)
- Hack Your Space (2021) (0)
- Life, Unplugged (2019) (0)
- Step Outside (2021) (0)
- Desirable Difficulty (2019) (0)
- A Lesson in Active Learning (2019) (0)
- Large studies reveal how reference bias limits policy applications of self-report measures (2022) (0)
- Honest People - Telling the truth, even when it hurts (2022) (0)
- Situation Modification (2018) (0)
- Capturing the Moment (2018) (0)
- The Wallet Test (2019) (0)
- Heart and Will (2018) (0)
- Belonging Mindset (2018) (0)
- Think it, Do it (2019) (0)
- Sample, Then Specialize: What comes before a hot streak (2022) (0)
- The Power of Praise: Positive reinforcement can lead to positive outcomes (2022) (0)
- Fitting In First (2018) (0)
- Preach What You Practice (2020) (0)
- I Think You Can, I Think You Can (2022) (0)
- Fine-Tuning Your Fresh Start (2019) (0)
- Family history: Breast cancer risk evaluation tools (2013) (0)
- Social Blind Spots (2019) (0)
- People Who Need People (2022) (0)
- Kids Today (2018) (0)
- Mindful Adolescent Scale (2021) (0)
- Bragging Backfires (2019) (0)
- Naive Realism (2019) (0)
- Reserve Judgment (0)
- Experiences Endure (2018) (0)
- Imitation is Inspiration (2018) (0)
- Perfect Storm (2018) (0)
- Sleep Success (2020) (0)
- Guided Mastery:The scaffolding you need to grow stronger (2021) (0)
- Finding Flow - When work feels like play (2021) (0)
- We Can Do It (2020) (0)
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