Cosette Fox, PhD

Cross Cultural Investigation of the Effect of Growth Mindset Single Session Interventions on Mental Health

PhD, Experimental Psychology with Behavioral Neuroscience specialty, University of Ottawa

BS, University of Ottawa

BA, University of Ottawa

Dr. Cosette Fox is the Dean of Faculty and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences at Holy Cross College at Notre Dame, Indiana. As a Professor of Psychology, her current area of research is in the cross-cultural investigation of the effect of single-session interventions on mental health in adolescents and college students.

Dean Fox has led students on mid-semester break trips to Lebanon and Poland. On those trips, she and her students worked side-by-side to conduct research into growth mindset interventions on child refugees to mitigate the pain of war-induced trauma. This research has led to multiple publications in academic journals on which Dr. Fox and her students are listed as co-authors.

Before Dr. Fox came to Holy Cross she completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, investigating the protective effect of environmental enrichment on brain trauma.

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