Personal growth has interested management scholars for nearly a century, yet research on
personal growth has not cohered into a substantive research domain. Nevertheless, various …

Metamotivation research suggests that people may be able to modulate their motivational
states strategically to secure desired outcomes (Scholer & Miele, 2016). To regulate one's …

Although the focus of research for decades, there is a surprising lack of consensus on what
is (and what is not) self-control. We review some of the most prominent theoretical models of …

Decades of research have shown that people's mindsets beliefs—their beliefs about the
fixedness or malleability of talent, ability, and intelligence—can powerfully influence their …

Research indicates that inducing high-level construal (processing that highlights invariant,
essential features) relative to low-level construal (processing that highlights idiosyncratic …

Feedback is information that can improve task performance. Online communities,
educational forums, and crowd-based feedback platforms all support feedback exchange …

We tested the relationships between economic scarcity, concrete construal level and risk
behaviors. We manipulated the lack of economic resources using a priming task in Studies 1 …

From whom do people seek what type of support? Although people regularly seek support
from close and distant others, little work has systematically investigated when and why …

Research on the identification of organizational practices that promote individual and
organizational performance is now very extensive. However, several studies have revealed …

Humans have developed a unique ability to think about hypothetical events (imagined,
fictional, improbable events) and to distinguish them from real events (directly experienced …