Introduction -- I. Education -- 1. A Growth Mindset about Intelligence -- 2. The Social-Belonging Intervention -- 3. Self-Affirmation Interventions -- 4. The Utility-Value Intervention -- 5. Difference-Education: Improving Disadvantaged Students' Academic Outcomes by Changing Their Theory of Difference -- 6. The Pathways Intervention as a Model to Design Broader Systems of Equitable Student Support -- 7. The Strategic Resource Use Intervention -- II. Health and Well-Being -- 8. Happiness Interventions -- 9. The Stress-Mindset Intervention -- 10. Stress Reappraisal Interventions: Improving Acute Stress Responses in Motivated Performance Contexts 11. Values-Alignment Interventions: An Alternative to Pragmatic Appeals for Behavior Change -- 12. The Taste-Focused-Labeling Intervention: Emphasizing the Tasty and Enjoyable Attributes of Healthy Foods -- III. Conflict and Relationships -- 13. The Incremental Theory of Personality Intervention -- 14. The Empathic-Discipline Intervention -- 15. The Group-Malleability Intervention: Addressing Intergroup Conflicts by Changing Perceptions of Outgroup Malleability -- 16. The Couples Activity for Reappraising Emotions Intervention: A 7-Minute Marital Conflict Intervention Benefits Relational and Individual Well-Being 17. The Abstract Reframing Intervention: Helping Insecure Individuals Benefit from Romantic Partners' Positive Feedback -- IV. Sustainability -- 18. The Social Norms Approach: A Wise Intervention for Solving Social and Environmental Problems -- 19. Dynamic Norm Interventions: How to Enable the Spread of Positive Change -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Summary:
"Precise shifts in the ways people make sense of themselves, others, and social situations can help people flourish. This compelling handbook synthesizes the growing body of research on wise interventions--brief, nonclinical strategies that are "wise" to the impact of social psychological processes on behavior. Leading authorities describe how maladaptive or pejorative interpretations can undermine people's functioning and how they can be altered to cause benefits in such areas as academic motivation and achievement, health, well-being, and personal relationships. Consistently formatted chapters review the development of each intervention, how it can be implemented, its evidence base, and implications for solving personal and societal problems. Subject areas/Key words: positive psychology, growth mindsets, changing mindsets, academic achievement, achievement motivation, behavior change, nonclinical, social psychological, psychologically wise, closing achievement gaps, conflict resolution, subjective construals, values affirmation, social norms interventions Audience: Researchers and students in social/personality, educational, and industrial/organizational psychology"-- Provided by publisher.
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