Internships provide opportunities for early-career scientists to apply their academic knowledge, gain workplace experience and develop the soft skills necessary for successful careers. Although these ...

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Recently, a close friend’s niece was having trouble graduating from college. She needed to pass a math class to graduate but wouldn’t take it because she feared flunking it. A belief that she just ...

I was recently getting a much-needed haircut with a new stylist, and in our small talk, he asked me what I do for a living. I explained that I teach current and future teachers how people learn and do ...

Sooner or later, everyone fails at something. But does everyone learn from their failures? In fact, the evidence suggests that most people struggle to grow from mistakes and defeats. When researchers ...