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Online mindset training protects adolescents from stress

Adolescence is an intensely stressful life stage. We developed a brief online training module to help young people to understand stress and to respond to it constructively. The module improved their psychological and physiological responses to stress and boosted academic performance.

This is a summary of: Yeager, D. S. et al. A synergistic mindsets intervention protects adolescents from stress. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04907-7 (2022).

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01746-4

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