Perfectionism and endorsement constraint

Perfectionism and sleep disturbance.

The main purpose of the present research was to explore gender-related associations between sleep disturbance and perfectionism dimensions in a large sample of undergraduate students. Perfectionism dimensions have been assessed using the Portuguese version of the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Hewitt and Flett, 1991 , J Pers Soc Psychol 60:456; Soares et al., 2003 , Rev Port Psicossom 5:...

Perfectionism and Choice∗

Perfectionism can be mentally costly for people who deviate from selfimposed norms of behavior. I model perfectionism in Gul and Pesendorfer’s (2001) framework where agents can be tempted by immediate consumption. Besides normative and temptation utilities, my model identifies a mental cost of perfectionism that is proportional to the difference between the decision maker’s actual choices and h...

Anger and Perfectionism

A New Measure of Perfectionism: The Perfectionism Inventory HILL ET AL. A NEW MEASURE OF PERFECTIONISM

In this investigation, we produced a new 8-scale measure of perfectionism called the Perfectionism Inventory (PI) that is designed to capture the important constructs provided by 2 existing Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (MPS; Frost, Marten, Lahart, & Rosenblatt, 1990; Hewitt & Flett, 1991b) measures, along with new perfectionism scales. In the results from 3 studies, we describe scale de...

Psychological essentialism and stereotype endorsement

Research on implicit person theories shows that people who believe that human attributes are immutable (“entity theorists”) are particularly prone to endorse social stereotypes and to explain them with reference to innate factors. We argue that entity theories belong to a broader set of beliefs that represent diVerences between people in terms of underlying essences. New measures of three essen...