Lay Theories and Evaluation-Based Organization of Impressions: An Application of the Memory Search Paradigm

• Main Authors: TONG, Yuk-Yue, CHIU, Chi-Yue
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2002
• Subjects: Personality and Social Contexts; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/280; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1279/viewcontent/Tong___Chiu_PSPB_2002_1.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

People may believe that personal attributes are fixed entities that cannot be changed (hold an entity theory). Alternatively, they may believe that qualities of a person are malleable (hold an incremental theory). In the present research, the authors used Sternberg's (1966) memory search task t...