► Four studies investigate how gradual escalations affect the judgments of guilt made by observers. ► Making commitments to escalating behaviors led observers to later rate actors as less guilty. ► Inducing a categorical mindset counteracted the effect of commitment on perceptions of guilt. ► Continuous commitments explain why gradual escalations reduce the severity of moral judgments. a b s t ...

The present study assessed the impact of a one-time computerized mindset intervention on teaching students’ cognitive stress appraisal before an upcoming exam. Previous research highlights long-term effectiveness growth-mindset interventions. Based theoretical assumptions derived from transactional theory as well recent empirical evidence intelligence and stress, we proposed that changing would...

In the current study, we explore unique roles that perceived professor and peer beliefs play in creating a mindset context for undergraduate engineering students. We found students ( N = 304) their peers, as compared to professors, endorse stronger fixed about intelligence more negative effort failure, what refer “unproductive mindsets”. Students’ perceptions of professors’ unproductive mindset...

The vast majority of work in construal level theory has found a robust relationship between construal level and temporal judgments for future events: Distance is associated with the abstract, and nearness is associated with the concrete. Our work looks at the past and proposes a critical moderator that reverses this relationship: knowledge. Through experiments involving real news events, we dem...

INTRODUCTION Epilepsy is a neurological disorder involving recurrent seizures. It affects approximately 5 million people in the U.S. To optimize their quality of life people with epilepsy are encouraged to engage in self-management (S-M) behaviors. These include managing their treatment (e.g., adhering to anti-seizure medication and clinical visit schedules), managing their seizures (e.g., resp...

The United States must improve its students' educational achievement. Race, gender, and social class gaps persist, and, overall, U.S. students rank poorly among peers globally. Scientific research shows that students' psychology-their "academic mindsets"-have a critical role in educational achievement. Yet policymakers have not taken full advantage of cost-effective and well-validated mindset i...

Most choices are complex and can be considered from a number of different perspectives. For example, someone choosing a snack may have taste, health, cost or any number of factors at the forefront of their mind. Although previous research has examined neural systems related to value and choice, very little is known about how mindset influences these systems. In the current study, participants w...