This study examines the moderating effect of global and multidomestic industries on the relationship between domestic mindsets— knowledge structures that top managers use to make strategic decisions— and multinationality. Based on data of 171 firms from 20 industries, we found that: 1) complexity (breadth) of domestic mindsets was positively related to multinationality in multidomestic but not ...

The human psyche is equipped with the capacity to solve similar problems in different ways. Social psychologists describe the different, complementary mental states that enable a person to reach a given end as mindsets. Mindset theories rest on the assumption that people can and do switch mindsets and that doing so requires a drastic change in perspective. Given the importance of being able to ...

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...

In the United States, gender gaps in science interest widen during the middle school years. Recent research on adults shows that gender gaps in some academic fields are associated with mindsets about ability and gender-science biases. In a sample of 529 students in a U.S. middle school, we assess how explicit boy-science bias, science confidence, science possible self (belief in being able to b...

In two preliminary control checks it was shown that affective attitudes presented greater abstraction than cognitive attitudes. Three further studies explored how construal level moderated the role of affective and cognitive attitudes in predicting one health-promoting behaviour (exercising) and two risk behaviours (sleep debt and binge drinking). There was a stronger influence of affective att...

In a previous study, parent-child praise was observed in natural interactions at home when children were 1, 2, and 3 years of age. Children who received a relatively high proportion of process praise (e.g., praise for effort and strategies) showed stronger incremental motivational frameworks, including a belief that intelligence can be developed and a greater desire for challenge, when they wer...

Because challenges are ubiquitous, resilience is essential for success in school and in life. In this article we review research demonstrating the impact of students’ mindsets on their resilience in the face of academic and social challenges. We show that students who believe (or are taught) that intellectual abilities are qualities that can be developed (as opposed to qualities that are fixed)...

Mindset theory (Gollwitzer, 1990) proposes that deliberative mindsets are marked by more openminded processing of information, whereas implemental mindsets are characterized by more closed-minded processing. Accordingly, deliberative and implemental mindsets should differ in selective processing of incidental information when performing a central task. In three experiments, participants in deli...

According to the Rubicon Model of Action Phases (in: J. Gollwitzer, 1996), Motivation, volition, and action, Enzyclopedia of psychology, series "motivation and emotion", Vol. 4, Hogrefe, Göttingen, 1996, pp. 531-582), different stages in goal pursuit are accompanied by different mindsets that enhance processing of mindset-congruous information. Before people engage in action, they usually delib...

The paper entails the statistical correlation of the investigations carried out for the sales and profit prediction and analysis by persons of different mindsets in case of strategic uncertainty . The paper by virtue of statistical and fuzzy logic based justifications has pointed out certain discovered facts in this perspective. The normal , optimistic , pessimistic and fickleminded based indiv...