Speaker Profile

Patricia Chen

Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Psychology, College of Education; Director, Motivation and Self-Regulation Lab, The University of Texas at Austin; Co-Author, “A Strategic Mindset Enhances Children’s Generation of Effective Strategies and Delay of Gratification Across Tasks” (2026, Developmental Psychology), “A Strategic Mindset Predicts and Promotes Effective Learning and Academic Performance” (2025, Science of Learning), “A Teacher Strategic Mindset Predicts Efficacious and Effective Teaching” (2023, Educational Psychology), and “Fanning the Flames of Passion: A Develop Mindset Predicts Strategy-Use Intentions to Cultivate Passion” (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)

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Upcoming Talks

Teaching Motivated Minds
Applying Brain Science to Boost Mastery, Meaning, Motivation, Metacognition, and Learning
Hilton Austin, Austin, TX
November 12-14, 2026

Past Talks

Teaching Engaged Brains
Improving Student Attention, Motivation, and Mindsets in a Disengaged, Distracted Age
The Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA or Virtually via Zoom
February 22-24, 2024

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