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No Stupid Questions

Podcast: No Stupid Questions

Episode: Why Do People Love Horror Movies? (Replay) | No Stupid Questions

Published on October 4, 2024

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

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It

by Stephen King

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And let's see, this is titled It, I can't tell if that's supposed to be It or if it's actually It. It's It, Stephen King!

During their discussion about scary movies, the hosts mention the title 'It', prompting Stephen Dubner to clarify that it is actually a book by Stephen King.

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Mindset

by Carol S. Dweck

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There was some multi-syllabic, multi-word phrase, and I believe she had to come up with some terminology when she was writing her first, last, only, at least for now, popular book for a lay audience and you know implicit theories of intelligence. And you know incremental versus whatever, these were not going to fly, and so 'growth mindset' ended up being the terminology we all know and love today.

The podcast hosts are discussing the concept of 'growth mindset,' and Angela mentions that Carol Dweck wrote a popular book for a lay audience where she introduced the term.

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