{"id":16926,"date":"2014-05-19T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/our-first-instinct-when-we-read-about-these\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:11:36","slug":"our-first-instinct-when-we-read-about-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/our-first-instinct-when-we-read-about-these\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Our first instinct, when we read about these experiments, is that what the interventions must be doing is changing students\u2019 minds \u2014 replacing one deeply held belief with another. And it is hard to imagine that reading words on a computer screen for 25 minutes could possibly do that. People just aren\u2019t that easy to persuade. But Yeager believes that the interventions are not in fact changing students\u2019 minds \u2014 they are simply keeping them from overinterpreting discouraging events that might happen in the future. \u201cWe don\u2019t prevent you from experiencing those bad things,\u201d Yeager explains. \u201cInstead, we try to change the meaning of them, so that they don\u2019t mean to you that things are never going to get better.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/18\/magazine\/who-gets-to-graduate.html?smid=fb-share&amp;_r=0\">Who Gets to Graduate? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first instinct, when we read about these experiments, is that what the interventions must be doing is changing students\u2019 minds \u2014 replacing one deeply held belief with another. And it is hard to imagine that reading words on a computer screen for 25 minutes could possibly do that. People just aren\u2019t that easy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4p0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}