College students and senior citizens two generations apart in age estimated the probabilities of each of 30 behaviors for each of 14 pair relationships varying in their closeness (casual acquaintances, good friends, close relationship, married partners) and in their sex composition. The younger respondents rated the pair relationships of 22-year-olds today, while the older ones rated those of 2...

This review builds on self-control theory (Carver & Scheier, 1998) to develop a theoretical framework for investigating associations of implicit theories with self-regulation. This framework conceptualizes self-regulation in terms of 3 crucial processes: goal setting, goal operating, and goal monitoring. In this meta-analysis, we included articles that reported a quantifiable assessment of impl...

Personality Traits, Implicit Theories of Intelligence and Academic Performance: Mediating Role Adaptability

Recent research in social psychology suggests that people harbor ‘‘implicit race biases,’’ biases which can be unconscious or uncontrollable. Because awareness and control have traditionally been deemed necessary for the ascription of moral responsibility, implicit biases present a unique challenge: do we pardon discrimination based on implicit biases because of its unintentional nature, or do ...

Implicit theories of emotion--assumptions about whether emotions are fixed (entity theory) or malleable (incremental theory)--have previously been shown to influence affective outcomes over time. We examined whether implicit theories of emotion also relate to the immediate regulation of negative affect. Consistent with our hypotheses, we found that the more students endorsed an entity theory of...