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 ...

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...

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-...

The objective of positive education is not only to improve students' well-being but also their academic performance. As an important concept in positive education, growth mindset refers to core assumptions about the malleability of a person's intellectual abilities. The present study investigates the relation of growth mindsets to psychological well-being and school engagement. The study also e...

Saat ini penelitian di Indonesia mengenai growth mindset mulai banyak diminati. Growth Mindset dianggap sebagai salah satu kunci kesuksesan dalam hidup, karena individu yang yakin bahwa kepintaran dirinya dapat berkembang melalui usaha akan menunjukkan sikap menerima tantangan dan melihat setiap kesulitan proses belajar untuk meningkatkan kapasitas diri. Alat ukur paling umum digunakan adalah S...

In this issue of Structure, Bertelsen et al. determine the three-dimensional structures Haemophilus influenzae VapD toxin, a Cas-2 homolog, with and without its cognate neutralizing antitoxin, VapX, that together comprise toxin-antitoxin system. These reveal unique stoichiometry, two toxins neutralized simultaneously by one VapX antitoxin. The virulence-associated protein D, or VapD, is encoded...