Differing Interpretations of Difficulty Neil Lewis, Jr.

Published: Aug. 7, 2018, 3:18 p.m.

b'"No matter whether you think you can or can\'t," the saying goes, "you\'re right." Neil Lewis, Jr. from Cornell University talks with us about about his research into what differentiates students who experience difficulty in college as signaling its importance from those that make it mean that completing college is impossible.\\xa0His article\\xa0\\u201cNo pain no gain? Social demographic correlates and identity consequences of interpreting experienced difficulty as importance\\u201d was published with Cristina Aelenei and Daphna Oyserman in the January 2017 issue of Contemporary Educational Psychology.'