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Beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies

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Who will achieve high marks in school, flourish in their career or become an Olympian? Current theories of achievement provide answers that are intuitively appealing but scientifically flawed. Consequently, most of what people believe about how to achieve success is likely to be incorrect.

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  1. Department of Psychological Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Brooke N. Macnamara

  2. Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Richard W. Prather

  3. School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Alexander P. Burgoyne

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Macnamara, B.N., Prather, R.W. & Burgoyne, A.P. Beliefs about success are prone to cognitive fallacies. Nat Rev Psychol 2, 716–717 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00255-z

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