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In collaboration with colleagues in Canada, the USA, Germany, and Great Britain, I study motivation across the lifespan and how causal thinking shapes states of mind and resilience. It is guided by the premise that, in trying to make sense of life's circumstances, people employ causal thinking to identify explanations for their successes and failures. As a metacognitive phenomenon, causal thinking regulates cognitive, affective, motivation, and behavior consequences across the lifespan. Life setbacks attributed to controllable causes engender psychologically resilient mindsets; the same setbacks trigger helpless mindsets when ascribed to uncontrollable causes.
My studies have examined youth struggling with personal challenge, older adults dealing with psychological and physical disabilities, people stigmatized for being different, and faculty members’ career development. Despite psychological distress and repeated failure, young adults having adaptive mindsets (controllable causes) persist in competitive achievement situations in the face of adversity. Older adults who ascribe health challenges to ‘old age’ (uncontrollable causes) have shorter lifespans than peers who attribute the same problems to controllable causes such as poor diet and lack of exercise. Other studies show that prejudice and discrimination is more likely when people ascribe controllable (vs. uncontrollable) causes to stigmas such as obesity or poverty.
My studies have examined youth struggling with personal challenge, older adults dealing with psychological and physical disabilities, people stigmatized for being different, and faculty members’ career development. Despite psychological distress and repeated failure, young adults having adaptive mindsets (controllable causes) persist in competitive achievement situations in the face of adversity. Older adults who ascribe health challenges to ‘old age’ (uncontrollable causes) have shorter lifespans than peers who attribute the same problems to controllable causes such as poor diet and lack of exercise. Other studies show that prejudice and discrimination is more likely when people ascribe controllable (vs. uncontrollable) causes to stigmas such as obesity or poverty.
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HRI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interactionpp.54-62, (2023)
ANNALS OF FAMILY MEDICINEno. 5 (2023): 416-423
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