We propose that internationalization mindsets – the configuration of ability and willingness to internationalize entrepreneurs in pre-start-up phase predict later behavior. Moreover, we suggest may exist before a company is established different configurations lead behaviors. Using multiple correspondence analysis with data from 213 early stage entrepreneurs, this study extends our understandin...

Our planet is currently facing an unprecedented state of emergency concerning environmental depletion that has brought forth consequences such as biodiversity loss, climate change, and the rise sea levels. These urgent, global challenges require new paradigms being, relating to each other, doing operate from a foundational level (mental models), through relational (social connections, interdisc...

Lack of usability specialists, high resource requirements and developer mindsets are three considerable barriers for introducing usability engineering into software companies. This Ph.D. project explores the effect of letting software developers and end users apply usability engineering methods instead of a specialist, a solution which may reduce the barriers.

Our research reports on an ongoing study of the impact of entrepreneurial interventions within first-year engineering courses on changes in the mindsets of engineering students. Entrepreneurial mindset in our study is operationally defined as a more growth oriented mindset versus a fixed oriented mindset. This operational definition and an accompanying mindset measurement instrument was develop...

• 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...

Duringthepast fewdecades,significantbiomedicaladvances have increased diagnostic and treatment effectiveness.Recentresearchfrompsychologyprovidesaspecialopportunitytoaddvaluetothetraditionalcornerstone ofmedicine: the patient-clinician relationship. What is it about the conversation between patient and physician that gives it therapeutic value? At the most basic level, physicians and other clin...

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...