Self-Theories: The Construction of Free Will

Are We Free?: Psychology and Free Will

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Dweck, Carol S ^a   Molden, Daniel C ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Entity theory; Human nature; Implicit theories; Incremental theory; Lay theories; Self determination; Self formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920373161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189636.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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