In this manuscript we propose that Challenge-avoiders, also referred to as Impression Managers, are a heretofore ignored but commonly occurring player type. We consider whether and how eight very different modern games accommodate Explorers, Challenge-seekers, and Challenge-avoiders and discuss implications for entertainment and learning game design. Achievers and Explorers are player types fou...

Many of the jokes people enjoy carry a certain degree of moral violation. Since displaying humor often requires committing benign moral violations, we hypothesize that 1) a moral mindset stifles humor and 2) morally-focused people are less humorous, and are therefore less liked by their workplace peers. Participants primed with a moral mindset were less likely to appreciate humor that involved ...

This study aims to develop a valid and reliable measurement instrument measure the quality of Mindset Theories students aged 14- 22. A systematic approach was followed tool. 1145 participated in (48% were female 52% male). Exploratory confirmatory factor analysis applied determine scale's construct validity. As result exploratory analysis, scale determined consist 19 items four sub-dimensions. ...

The ease and abundance of knowledge acquisition that is unparalleled in history, renders knowledge transition and practicing of skills in education insufficient. The importance of personal reflection and identity, i.e. the individual’s mindset, is increasingly important. Re-thinking educational approaches, to entrepreneurship and leadership in particular, is important since they are activities ...

Debates about human nature often revolve around what is built in. However, the hallmark of human nature is how much of a person's identity is not built in; rather, it is humans' great capacity to adapt, change, and grow. This nature versus nurture debate matters-not only to students of human nature-but to everyone. It matters whether people believe that their core qualities are fixed by nature ...

Recent research has suggested conflicting evidence on how consumers respond to threat (from diseases) concerning their product preferences. Specifically, might exhibit higher versus lower preferences for typical (vs. atypical) products. Drawing upon the literature consumption-based affect regulation and consumers’ mindset, this seeks reconcile these seemingly findings by establishing moderating...

This dissertation examines the relationship between two social psychological theories: Social Comparison Theory (Festinger, 1954) and Construal Level Theory (Liberman & Trope, 1998). More specifically, this research assesses how a person’s level of mental abstraction (i.e., construal level) might influence the way social comparison information from individuals or aggregates is used to form self...

• Those who view intelligence as fixed account for most of the “overconfidence effect.” • Overconfidence is preserved, in part, by attending to easy more than difficult tasks. • Growth mindsets lead to openness to difficulty and, in turn, greater self-insight. • Teaching a growth mindset makes students open to difficulty and less overconfident. • Overconfidence is maintained through preferentia...

This set of studies examines the perceptual similarities between emotions that share either a valence or a motivational direction. Determination is a positive, approach-related emotion, whereas anger is a negative, approach-related emotion. Thus, determination and anger share a motivational direction, but are opposite in valence. An implemental mindset has previously been shown to produce high-...

This article presents a study of five teachers at Finnish elementary school who implemented and evaluated growth mindset pedagogy (GMP). The received GMP training conducted student interventions in their classrooms. We analyzed the impact on teacher’s pedagogical thinking practices found significant differences between fixed-mindset growth-mindset ways they internalized applied principles. most...