The Surprising Power of Mindset for Depression

Psychology Today | 22.10.2026 22:27
You’ve probably heard about the power of mindset when it comes to education. As the developmental psychologist Carol Dweck famously showed, students with a growth mindset tend to do better in school than students with a fixed mindset because they're less likely to give up in the face of setbacks. What you might not know is that new research is showing mindset can have a powerful effect on dealing with negative emotions, or moods.