Promoting malleability is not one size fits all: Priming implicit theories of intelligence as a function of self-theories

Self and Identity

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-63

  Burns, Kathleen C ^a   Isbell, Linda M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 34248333744     PISSN: 15298868     EISSN: 15298876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15298860600823864     Document Type: Article

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