Identification as Gifted and Implicit Beliefs About Intelligence

Children's Implicit Beliefs About Intelligence

Young children are commonly perceived as highly optimistic and confident, and therefore seldom arouse concern as to how they are impacted by academic failure. However, there is evidence to suggest that young children can indeed be negatively affected by failure experiences. Implicit theories of intelligence can provide individuals with a framework by which to perceive failure, though little is ...

Impetus beliefs as default heuristics: dissociation between explicit and implicit knowledge about motion.

We examined the extent to which findings from the literature on naive physics and representational momentum studies are consistent with impetus beliefs postulating imparted internal energy as a source of motion. In a literature review, we showed that, for situations in which impetus theory and physical principles make different predictions, representational momentum effects are consistent with ...

Concepts as Beliefs About Essences

1. The Problems As all of you know, Putnam (1975) and Burge (1979) have made a convincing case that neither meanings nor beliefs are in the head. Most philosophers, I think, have accepted their argument. Putnam explained to us that a subject's internal notions often do not fix their reference by themselves, but are helped by its natural and social environment; and Burge explained to us that hav...

Implicit Beliefs of Future Teachers about General Ability

Implicit beliefs about ideal body image predict body image dissatisfaction

We examined whether implicit measures of actual and ideal body image can be used to predict body dissatisfaction in young female adults. Participants completed two Implicit Relational Assessment Procedures (IRAPs) to examine their implicit beliefs concerning actual (e.g., I am thin) and desired ideal body image (e.g., I want to be thin). Body dissatisfaction was examined via self-report questio...