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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Kwon J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5158088 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kwon JaeHwan J Nayakankuppam Dhananjay D
PloS one 20161215 12
We propose that when individuals believe in fixed traits of personality (entity theorists), they are likely to expect a world of "uniformity." As such, they easily infer a population statistic from a small sample of data with confidence. In contrast, individuals who believe in malleable traits of personality (incremental theorists) are likely to presume a world of "diversity," such that they "hesitate" to infer a population statistic from a similarly sized sample. In four laboratory experiments, ...[more]