Parental belief systems can strongly influence children’s affect, behavior, and mental health. However, associations between specific kinds of parental beliefs and children’s mental health have not been thoroughly explored. One relevant belief system is parental intelligence mindset: beliefs about the malleability of intelligence. Children of parents who view intelligence as static (known as a ...

president, turned up in Cannes last month to promote his new documentary on the dangers of global warming, amid speculation that he may stage a political comeback on the basis of an issue which is increasingly dividing George Bush's administration and the Democrat opposition in the face of rising fuel prices. He arrived in France to showcase An Inconvenient Truth, a film that issues alarming pr...

and concrete mindsets on anticipating and guiding others’ self-regulatory efforts. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40,

In a climate of benchmarks, comparisons, accountability, and league tables, it is important to ensure that students are not excluded from access to academic ‘success’ or denied a sense of academic progress (Nichols & Berliner, 2007). Many assessment systems represent a ‘zero-sum game’ in which some students’ success comes at the expense of others’ success (e.g., Amrein-Beardsley, 2008; Nichols ...

Generating the maximum number of visual patterns by uncovering the entire space of possible visual designs remains a challenge within the construction process of information visualization. Users interact with different mindsets consisting of design, data analysis, application development, and hardware resource usage. Therefore, they desire a flexible and productive interface that keeps them clu...

The broaden-and-build theory describes the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment and love. A key proposition is that these positive emotions broaden an individual’s momentary thought–action repertoire: joy sparks the urge to play, interest sparks the urge to explore, contentment sparks the urge to savour and integrate, and love sparks a recurri...