For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

If he keeps the palm of the hand parallel to the floor, as he would in his own culture when making known the height of a child, for example, he will very likely be greeted by laughter, in Colombia this gesture is reserved for the description of animals.

From her description, Chinese medicine sounded as if it had magic power that worked wonders.

Of course, that may sound like a description of every teenager on the planet.

In one of the study's experiments, subjects were given a brief description of a man from Chicago with the last name Williams.

"In America there are large ants which can eat whole trees bare as a broom handle in a single night,"she wrote in the description.

As she wrote in her description of the peacock flower," The Indians, who are not treated well by their Dutch masters, use the seeds to abort their children, so that they will not become slaves like themselves.

This description of roller-skating?illustrates the three components of an attitude: affect, cognition, and behavior.