The present study was conducted to investigate the comparative impacts of three types of EFL teach- ers' mindsettings on EFL learners' grammar achievement. The participants of the study were English Translation undergraduate students (both female and male with the age ranging of 18-35) who were selected according to convenience non-random sampling from three classes of English Grammar 1 at both...

Shopping momentum occurs when an initial purchase provides a psychological impulse whose momentum drives the purchase of a second, unrelated product. The most promising theoretical mechanism for shopping momentum comes from Gollwitzer’s (1990) theory of implementation and deliberation mindsets. Under this theory, shopping momentum occurs because the initial purchase moves one from a deliberativ...

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 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-...

Messages about how much our abilities can change - or "mindset" messages - affect learning, achievement, and performance interpretations. However, the neurocognitive mechanisms responsible for these effects remain unexplored. To address this gap, we assessed how a mindset induction influenced cognitive control brain activity. Participants were randomly assigned to read that intelligence was eit...

this article examines the effect of philosophical mindset on the entrepreneurial tendencies of small and medium businesses’ managers. a correlational study was conducted by drawing on a descriptive design. the population included 361 managers of small and medium businesses in 9 provinces. the required information was gleaned through two questionnaires. finally, the obtained data was analyzed us...

Introduction As the whole society is experiencing a notable shift from the industrial age to the information age, an urgent need for a mindset change in education has been frequently discussed during the past decades. This paper will approach the mindset change through three interconnected sections: the first section reviews the conceptualization of mindset and then gives our definition of mind...

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...