A5016898278- Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation
- Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Human Resource and Talent Management
- Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Online Learning and Analytics
- Resilience and Mental Health
- AI and HR Technologies
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Employer Branding and e-HRM
- Library Science and Information Literacy
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Video Analysis and Summarization
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Multimedia Communication and Technology
- Mobile Learning in Education
- Ethics in Business and Education
- Human Resource Development and Performance Evaluation
- Personal Information Management and User Behavior
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
University of Pennsylvania
2017-2023
Philadelphia University
2017-2020
California University of Pennsylvania
2020
Character
2017-2019
Hamilton College
2014-2016
When predicting success, how important are personal attributes other than cognitive ability? To address this question, we capitalized on a full decade of prospective, longitudinal data from
Achieving important goals is widely assumed to require confronting obstacles, failing repeatedly, and persisting in the face of frustration. Yet empirical evidence linking achievement frustration tolerance lacking. To facilitate work on this topic, we developed validated a novel behavioral measure tolerance: Mirror Tracing Frustration Task (MTFT). In 5-min task, participants allocate time between difficult tracing task entertaining games videos. two studies young adults (Study 1: N = 148,...
Personal qualities like prosocial purpose and leadership predict important life outcomes, including college success. Unfortunately, the holistic assessment of personal in admissions is opaque resource intensive. Can artificial intelligence (AI) advance goals admissions? While cost-effective, AI has been criticized as a "black box" that may inadvertently penalize already disadvantaged subgroups when used high-stakes settings. Here, we consider an approach to assessing aims overcome these...
How can schools help students build moral character? One way is to use prepackaged education programs, but as we report here, their effectiveness tends be limited. What, then, do? We took two steps answer this question. First, consulted more than 50 of the world’s leading social scientists. These scholars have spent decades studying morality, character, or behavior change until now few had used expertise inform practices. Second, searched recent studies for promising techniques that apply...
Mastery behaviours — seeking out challenging tasks and continuing to work on them despite difficulties are integral achievement but difficult measure with precision. The current study reports the development validation of computer-based persistence, effort, resilience, challenge-seeking (PERC) task in two demographically diverse samples adolescents (total N = 3,188). We present evidence for convergent validity self-reported mastery learning mindsets, discriminant from theoretically unrelated...
Over the last 20 years, "talent management" has become an increasingly popular descriptor of activities previously referred to as "human resources." Across five studies (total N = 9,966), we investigate this terminological shift and its organizational consequences. We find that contemporary human resource professionals prefer prior terminology, deeming it more optimistic motivating. Nevertheless, "talent" is semantically ambiguous. Lay definitions talent vary in degree which defined innate...
The present study focused on how self-control over pace might help learners successfully extract information from digital learning aids. Past research has indicated that too much control can be overwhelming, but little ineffective. Within the popular self-testing domain of flashcards, we sought to elucidate optimal level user for and compare outcomes between paper flashcards. College students learned vocabulary flashcards or one several flashcard versions were scored their memory recall...
It is widely acknowledged that the language we use reflects numerous psychological constructs, including our thoughts, feelings, and desires. Can so called "noncognitive" traits with known links to success, such as growth mindset, leadership ability, intrinsic motivation, be similarly revealed through language? We investigated this question by analyzing students' 150-word open-ended descriptions of their own extracurricular activities or work experiences included in college applications....
Employees are key organizational stakeholders; the success of any organization depends in large part on employees’ continued development (Ferris et al., 1999). In today’s work environment, marked by rapid and profound change, employee is becoming increasingly critical. Despite a recognition importance development, research what contributes to still nascent (Nielsen 2017). This leaves organizations with little direction how foster maintain competitive edge. this symposium, we include four...