We propose that when individuals believe in fixed traits of personality (entity theorists), they are likely to expect a world of "uniformity." As such, they easily infer a population statistic from a small sample of data with confidence. In contrast, individuals who believe in malleable traits of personality (incremental theorists) are likely to presume a world of "diversity," such that they "h...

The current research extended the implicit theory approach to a weight management context and merged it with value expectancy theory. Three studies investigated the hypothesis that individuals are especially unlikely to self-regulate effectively after dieting setbacks when they believe body weight to be fixed (entity theory) rather than malleable (incremental theory). Study 1 examined avoidant ...

The present study examined whether perceivers' implicit theories about the fixedness of intelligence would modulate neurophysiological responses to stereotype-violating and stereotype-confirming information. Brain activity was recorded using EEG as participants read a series of stereotype-confirming or stereotype-violating behaviors performed by a target character. Compared to incremental theor...

Why should Formal Language specialists get interested and involved in the area of Grammar Induction (GI), likewise known as Grammatical Inference? This is the question we try to answer in this paper. To keep this paper short, we mostly refrain from giving technical details but rather cite according references. So, this is rather a kind of hopefully inspiring (and by no means complete!) annotate...

Understanding people’s perceptions and inferences about social robots and, thus, their responses toward them, constitutes one of the most pervasive research themes in field Human–Robot interaction today. We herein augment extend this line work by investigating, for first time, novel proposition that one’s implicit self-theory orientation (underlying beliefs malleability self-attributes, such as...