Using recent research, I argue that beliefs lie at the heart of personality and adaptive functioning and that they give us unique insight into how personality and functioning can be changed. I focus on two classes of beliefs—beliefs about the malleability of self-attributes and expectations of social acceptance versus rejection—and show how modest interventions have brought about important real...

This article examines the relationship between Incremental-Entity personal conceptions of intelligence and the cultural dimension of Individualism-Collectivism in Italian students attending high school. Four types of individualism and collectivism were investigated: 1) Vertical-Individualism, characterized by independent and different self; 2) Horizontal-Individualism, characterized by independ...

Article history: Received 17 December 2010 Received in revised form 30 March 2011 Accepted 31 March 2011 Available online 22 April 2011 A good sense of humor is sexually attractive, perhaps because it reveals intelligence, creativity, and other ‘good genes’ or ‘good parent’ traits. If so, intelligence should predict humor production ability, which in turn should predict mating success. In this ...

Abstract This article presents contemporary concepts of economic beliefs in economics and sociology: (a) behavioural accounts; (b) learning; (c) narrative approaches; (d) Science Technology Studies-inflected integrative accounts. The review argues that cutting-edge research on expectations both disciplines has paid insufficient attention to the fact human agents are supported partly substituted...

This contribution presents a practical extension of a theoretical model for multi-agent planning based upon DeLP, an argumentation-based defeasible logic. Our framework, named DeLP-MAPOP, is implemented on a platform for open multi-agent systems and has been experimentally tested, among others, in applications of ambient intelligence in the field of health-care. DeLP-MAPOP is based on a multi-a...

Children with congenital visual impairment have been reported to be delayed in theory of mind development. So far, research focused on first-order theory of mind, and included mainly blind children, whereas the majority of visually impaired children is not totally blind. The present study set out to explore whether children with a broader range of congenital visual impairments have a delay in m...

By drawing together the implications from several streams of IS research, addressing the critical research question posed extensively in IS literature, this study identifies the antecedents of individual’s behavioral and normative beliefs that shape intentions to use Business Intelligence Systems (BIS), explaining how those internal motivations are formed. Our comprehensive model of antecedents...

We propose that White men derive a psychological benefit from believing that affirmative action is a quota-based policy. Three studies provide evidence that quota beliefs protect White men’s self-esteem by boosting their sense of self-competence. Study 1 found a positive relationship between quota beliefs and self-esteem that was mediated by self-perceived competence. In Studies 2 and 3, the be...

Previous studies conducted in Western societies showed that instructors' beliefs about intellectual ability affected their attitudes toward students. However, in many East Asian societies influenced by Confucian culture, teachers not only hold beliefs of ability but also two kinds of beliefs about effort: obligation-oriented belief (i.e., believing that effort-making is a student's role obligat...