Social comparison during political transition: Interaction of entity versus incremental beliefs and social Identities

• Main Authors: HONG, Ying-Yi, CHIU, Chi-Yue, YEUNG, Grace, TONG, Jennifer Y. Y.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1999
• Subjects: Social Identification; social comparision; implicit theories; political transition' Hong Kong; China; Asian Studies; Personality and Social Contexts
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/283; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1282/viewcontent/Hong_Chiu_Yeung_Tong_IJIR_1999.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The relation between intergroup perceptions and peoples implicit theories of the malleability of human attributes or character was examined. We predicted that people who believe that human attributes are fixed (entity theorists) may also view a group as an entity and thus would rely on trait-based d...