Elizabeth Gunderson

Elizabeth Gunderson

Elizabeth Gunderson is a researcher and first author of the 2013 Child Development paper on parent praise to toddlers and later motivational frameworks.

Who they are

Elizabeth Gunderson is a researcher and first author of the 2013 Child Development paper on parent praise to toddlers and later motivational frameworks. On this site the name is tied to Process Praise, Fixed and Growth Mindset.

Key papers

Gunderson, E. A., Gripshover, S. J., Romero, C., Dweck, C. S., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Levine, S. C. (2013). Parent praise to 1- to 3-year-olds predicts children's motivational frameworks 5 years later. Child Development, 84(5), 1526-1541.

Key ideas

Process Praise: Praise aimed at what a person did rather than what they are. The advice it became, praise the process and not the outcome, is a misconception its originator names as such in print.

Fixed and Growth Mindset: The claim that people hold one of two implicit theories about ability.

Sources

  1. Gunderson, E. A., Gripshover, S. J., Romero, C., Dweck, C. S., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Levine, S. C. (2013). Parent praise to 1- to 3-year-olds predicts children's motivational frameworks 5 years later. Child Development, 84(5), 1526-1541.