APS
30th APS Annual Convention
Interventions with Impact: Increasing Health Behaviors, Academic Interest, and Achievement by Changing Beliefs
Research has increasingly demonstrated the real-world impact of social psychological interventions. These interventions are often brief and highly scalable, such that they can be deployed widely, while having a beneficial impact on behavior. This symposium presents experimental interventions targeting various commonly-held beliefs that improve health, academic interest, and achievement.
Chairs & Discussants
- Paul O'KeefeChair
Yale-NUS College
Presentations
- If Being Healthy Is Painful and Depriving, It’s No Wonder We Are Fat and Sick: Mindsets about the Process of Being Healthy Offer New Avenues for Motivating Healthy BehaviorsAlia Crum, Danielle Boles, Maysa DeSousa, Octavia Zahrt, Hazel Markus
- How Can We Increase a Desire to Learn in U.S. Public Schools? Evidence from the National Study of Learning MindsetsDavid Yeager, Paul Hanselman, Gregory Walton, Cintia Hinojosa, Carol Dweck
- Long-Term Effects of a Utility-Value Intervention in Introductory Biology CoursesJudith Harackiewicz, Cameron Hecht, Stacy Priniski, Elizabeth Canning
- A Brief Implicit Theory Intervention Increases Interest and Performance in Math Paul O'Keefe, Carol Dweck, Gregory Walton, E.J. Horberg
