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Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

We then assessed their beliefs about other aspects of learning and looked to see what happened to their grades.

Students' belief about the cause of their failure explains their attitude toward setbacks.

In particular, attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame.

They show due respect for each other's beliefs.

Isn't this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isn't this the generation who say they're concerned about their health and the well-being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people, then their behavior doesn't match their beliefs.

That means making some difficult decisions with elderly patients, and going against the misguided belief that when it comes to health care, more is always better.

It's hard to uproot deeply held beliefs about cancer screening with scientific data.

It is my profound belief that not only do we all need nature, but we all seek nature, whether we know we are doing so or not.

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There are many commonly held beliefs about eye glasses and eyesight that are not proven facts.

A new study challenges that belief, questioning whether brains really can be distinguished by gender.

Contrary to popular belief, older people generally do not want to live with their children.

My belief is that the goal of making is not to get every kid to be hands-on, but it enables us to be good learners.

The belief that research data is private intellectual propertyThe concern that certain agencies may make a profit out of it.

Interestingly, parents' attitudes toward education do not seem to reflect their own educational background as much as a belief in the importance of education for upward mobility.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

Today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.

have placed religious beliefs above party politicshave bridged the gap between the rich and the pooroffer poor children more chances to climb the social laddersuffer from higher levels of racial and economic segregationFamily structure.

Eroding religious belief in Europe may partly explain lowered birthrates.

We also need to know whether our thoughts, beliefs and ideas are in line with those of other people.

Meanwhile, Europe has fallen prey to a different ideological trap: the belief that European governments would always have infinite resources and could continue borrowing as if there were no tomorrow.

The personality ethic suggested it was one's attitude, not behavior, that inspired success, and this ethic was founded on a belief of positive mental attitude.

Contrary to popular belief, doing homework might add to students’ well-being.

Her observations helped dismiss the popular belief that insects spontaneously emerged from mud.

In reflection, my firm belief in the power of the brand was naive, not to mention a bit snobby.

today, the mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.

within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, "anything goes" mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

Another way of setting realistic goals is to analyze your short and long term objectives, keeping in mind your beliefs, values and strengths.

In recent years some Inuit people in Nunavut have reported increases in bear sightings around human settlements, leading to a belief that populations are increasing.

It had excited within him the belief he could write one last song.

One traditional belief about television is that it reduces a child's ability to think and to understand the world.

The essential belief of the first free government in the world was liberty for all men who could control themselves and would take responsibility for the state.

There is the belief that, if you arrive at an appointment late, you will be considered important.

This belief in "post-industrial society" has led those countries to neglect their manufacturing sector with negative consequences for their economies.

Durkheim proposed that religious beliefs functioned to reinforce social solidarity.

As a discovery claim works it through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the community’s credible discovery.

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page-including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns-debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.

But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less could truly be more.

I don't like quotas either; they run counter to my belief in meritocracy, governance by the capable.

In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that self-sufficiency was both d