David S. Yeager

20.6k total citations · 15 hit papers
92 papers, 11.8k citations indexed

About

David S. Yeager is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, David S. Yeager has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 11.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 35 papers in Social Psychology and 33 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in David S. Yeager's work include Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (24 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (19 papers) and Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation (16 papers). David S. Yeager is often cited by papers focused on Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (24 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (19 papers) and Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Motivation (16 papers). David S. Yeager collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. David S. Yeager's co-authors include Carol S. Dweck, Gregory M. Walton, Angela Duckworth, Andrew J. Elliot, Hae Yeon Lee, Jon A. Krosnick, David Paunesku, Christopher J. Bryan, Carissa Romero and Kali H. Trzesniewski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

David S. Yeager

88 papers receiving 11.1k citations

Hit Papers

Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe T... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2012 2011 2017 2019 2015 400 800 1.2k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Mindsets That Promote Resilience: When Students Believe That Personal Characteristics Can Be Developed
    2012 1.4k citations David S. Yeager, Carol S. Dweck profile →
  2. Social-Psychological Interventions in Education
    2011 895 citations David S. Yeager, Gregory M. Walton profile →
  3. Handbook of competence and motivation : theory and application
    2017 679 citations Andrew J. Elliot, Carol S. Dweck et al. Guilford Press eBooks profile →
  4. Mindsets: A View From Two Eras
    2019 674 citations Carol S. Dweck, David S. Yeager Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →
  5. Mind-Set Interventions Are a Scalable Treatment for Academic Underachievement
    2015 624 citations David Paunesku, Gregory M. Walton et al. Psychological Science profile →
  6. Measurement Matters
    2015 611 citations Angela Duckworth, David S. Yeager profile →
  7. Comparing the Accuracy of RDD Telephone Surveys and Internet Surveys Conducted with Probability and Non-Probability Samples
    2011 589 citations David S. Yeager et al. profile →
  8. Using design thinking to improve psychological interventions: The case of the growth mindset during the transition to high school.
    2016 473 citations David S. Yeager, Carissa Romero et al. profile →
  9. What can be learned from growth mindset controversies?
    2020 408 citations David S. Yeager, Carol S. Dweck American Psychologist profile →
  10. Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale
    2016 317 citations David S. Yeager, Gregory M. Walton et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  11. Declines in efficacy of anti-bullying programs among older adolescents: Theory and a three-level meta-analysis
    2015 314 citations David S. Yeager, Hae Yeon Lee et al. profile →
  12. Behavioural science is unlikely to change the world without a heterogeneity revolution
    2021 301 citations Christopher J. Bryan, Elizabeth Tipton et al. profile →
  13. Why Interventions to Influence Adolescent Behavior Often Fail but Could Succeed
    2017 264 citations David S. Yeager, Carol S. Dweck et al. Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →
  14. Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work
    2021 157 citations David S. Yeager, Jenny Buontempo et al. Psychological Science profile →
  15. A synergistic mindsets intervention protects adolescents from stress
    2022 105 citations David S. Yeager, Christopher J. Bryan et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David S. Yeager United States 43 5.2k 4.2k 3.9k 2.3k 2.1k 92 11.8k
Philip D. Parker Australia 59 4.7k 0.9× 3.3k 0.8× 3.3k 0.9× 3.2k 1.4× 1.7k 0.8× 206 11.9k
Gregory M. Walton United States 43 4.9k 0.9× 3.3k 0.8× 3.7k 1.0× 1.8k 0.8× 3.5k 1.7× 80 12.0k
Frédéric Guay Canada 51 6.7k 1.3× 3.4k 0.8× 4.1k 1.1× 2.5k 1.1× 1.4k 0.7× 145 12.4k
Kit‐Tai Hau Hong Kong 43 5.0k 1.0× 3.7k 0.9× 3.6k 0.9× 3.2k 1.4× 2.4k 1.2× 133 14.1k
Kenneth E. Barron United States 29 5.0k 1.0× 4.6k 1.1× 3.0k 0.8× 1.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 51 10.5k
Benjamin Nagengast Germany 42 3.5k 0.7× 3.4k 0.8× 3.0k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 138 8.2k
Willy Lens Belgium 47 8.1k 1.6× 4.3k 1.0× 2.9k 0.8× 2.4k 1.0× 1.9k 0.9× 160 13.8k
Kali H. Trzesniewski United States 39 6.6k 1.3× 4.0k 0.9× 2.3k 0.6× 5.9k 2.5× 3.5k 1.7× 71 14.1k
Geoffrey L. Cohen United States 50 5.0k 1.0× 2.2k 0.5× 3.4k 0.9× 2.2k 0.9× 5.7k 2.8× 117 13.7k
Ellen A. Skinner United States 45 6.5k 1.2× 3.3k 0.8× 7.7k 2.0× 5.4k 2.3× 2.3k 1.1× 101 16.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yeager, David S., et al.. (2025). A transparency statement improves trust in community-police interactions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2285–2285. 1 indexed citations
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Seo, Eunjin, Margarett Clapper, Cameron A. Hecht, Robert Crosnoe, & David S. Yeager. (2025). Peer Mindset Culture as a Developmental Context for Belonging. Educational Psychology Review. 37(4). 103–103.
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Hecht, Cameron A., et al.. (2024). Mindsets, contexts, and college enrollment: Taking the long view on growth mindset beliefs at the transition to high school. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 34(4). 1201–1217. 3 indexed citations
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Lichand, Guilherme, et al.. (2024). Measuring student mindsets at scale in resource‐constrained settings: A toolkit with an application to Brazil during the pandemic. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 35(1). e13008–e13008. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Eric, David S. Yeager, Carol S. Dweck, & Gregory M. Walton. (2022). An Organizing Framework for Teaching Practices that Can “Expand” the Self and Address Social Identity Concerns. Educational Psychology Review. 34(4). 2197–2219. 9 indexed citations
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Yeager, David S., et al.. (2022). A synergistic mindsets intervention protects adolescents from stress. Nature. 607(7919). 512–520. 105 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hecht, Cameron A., et al.. (2022). Efficiently exploring the causal role of contextual moderators in behavioral science. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(1). e2216315120–e2216315120. 37 indexed citations
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O’Brien, J., Brian M. Galla, Sidney K. D’Mello, et al.. (2022). Large studies reveal how reference bias limits policy applications of self-report measures. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 19189–19189. 32 indexed citations
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Hecht, Cameron A., David S. Yeager, Carol S. Dweck, & Mary C. Murphy. (2021). Beliefs, affordances, and adolescent development: Lessons from a decade of growth mindset interventions. Advances in child development and behavior. 61. 169–197. 39 indexed citations
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Reeves, Stephanie L., et al.. (2020). Psychological affordances help explain where a self-transcendent purpose intervention improves performance.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 120(1). 1–15. 20 indexed citations
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Kaufman, Tessa M. L., Hae Yeon Lee, Aprile D. Benner, & David S. Yeager. (2020). How School Contexts Shape the Relations Among Adolescents’ Beliefs, Peer Victimization, and Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Research on Adolescence. 30(3). 769–786. 10 indexed citations
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Rege, Mari, Paul Hanselman, Ingeborg Foldøy Solli, et al.. (2020). How can we inspire nations of learners? An investigation of growth mindset and challenge-seeking in two countries.. American Psychologist. 76(5). 755–767. 68 indexed citations
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Dweck, Carol S. & David S. Yeager. (2019). Mindsets: A View From Two Eras. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 14(3). 481–496. 674 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dainer‐Best, Justin, Hae Yeon Lee, Jason Shumake, David S. Yeager, & Christopher G. Beevers. (2018). Determining optimal parameters of the self-referent encoding task: A large-scale examination of self-referent cognition and depression.. Psychological Assessment. 30(11). 1527–1540. 43 indexed citations
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Jamieson, Jeremy P., et al.. (2018). Capitalizing on Appraisal Processes to Improve Stress Responses.. Grantee Submission. 2 indexed citations
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Yeager, David S.. (2017). Dealing With Social Difficulty During Adolescence: The Role of Implicit Theories of Personality. Child Development Perspectives. 11(3). 196–201. 25 indexed citations
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Elliot, Andrew J., Carol S. Dweck, & David S. Yeager. (2017). Handbook of competence and motivation : theory and application. Guilford Press eBooks. 679 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tipton, Elizabeth, David S. Yeager, & Ronaldo Iachan. (2016). Developing a Theory of Treatment Effect Heterogeneity through Better Design: Where Do Behavioral Science Interventions Work Best?.. Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness. 1 indexed citations
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Paunesku, David, Gregory M. Walton, Carissa Romero, et al.. (2015). Mind-Set Interventions Are a Scalable Treatment for Academic Underachievement. Psychological Science. 26(6). 784–793. 624 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yeager, David S., et al.. (2013). Implicit Theories of Personality and Attributions of Hostile Intent: A Meta-Analysis, an Experiment, and a Longitudinal Intervention. Child Development. 84(5). 1651–1667. 116 indexed citations

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