Unexpected Improvement, Decline, and Stasis: A Prediction Confidence Perspective on Achievement Success and Failure

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 667-684

  Plaks, Jason E ^a   Stecher, Kristin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

achievement; lay theories; motivation; prediction confidence

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CONTROL; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF CONCEPT;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; CHARACTER; CULTURE; EXERTION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SELF EFFICACY;

EID: 35448943124     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.93.4.667     Document Type: Article

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