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SUBMITTER: Miller EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3382137 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Miller Eric M EM Walton Gregory M GM Dweck Carol S CS Job Veronika V Trzesniewski Kali H KH McClure Samuel M SM
PloS one 20120622 6
Building cognitive abilities often requires sustained engagement with effortful tasks. We demonstrate that beliefs about willpower-whether willpower is viewed as a limited or non-limited resource-impact sustained learning on a strenuous mental task. As predicted, beliefs about willpower did not affect accuracy or improvement during the initial phases of learning; however, participants who were led to view willpower as non-limited showed greater sustained learning over the full duration of the ta ...[more]