Implicit Theories and Achievement Behavior

Implicit Theories and Achievement Behavior

Article: It is a pleasure to comment on Dweck, Chiu, and Hong's target article. Like so many of Dweck's earlier works, this article makes a substantive contribution to the psychological literature on the role of self-perceptions in behavior. The article summarizes much research on the operation of implicit theories. The theoretical framework is well presented, and the research evidence is impre...

The Effects of Gender and Implicit Theories on Science Achievement and Interest in Elementary-Aged Students

Spontaneous inferences, implicit impressions, and implicit theories.

People make social inferences without intentions, awareness, or effort, i.e., spontaneously. We review recent findings on spontaneous social inferences (especially traits, goals, and causes) and closely related phenomena. We then describe current thinking on some of the most relevant processes, implicit knowledge, and theories. These include automatic and controlled processes and their interpla...

Achievement Goals, Implicit Theories and Behavioral Regulation among Polytechnic Engineering Students

This study examined the relationships between the approach-avoidance dimension, as well as the mastery-performance dimension of achievement goals, implicit theory of intelligence, and behavioral regulations among engineering students in a polytechnic in the academic domain. Polytechnic students (n = 1359) from Singapore participated in the survey. They were assessed on achievement goal orientat...

Implicit theories of intelligence predict achievement across an adolescent transition: a longitudinal study and an intervention.

Two studies explored the role of implicit theories of intelligence in adolescents' mathematics achievement. In Study 1 with 373 7th graders, the belief that intelligence is malleable (incremental theory) predicted an upward trajectory in grades over the two years of junior high school, while a belief that intelligence is fixed (entity theory) predicted a flat trajectory. A mediational model inc...