A contentious debate in political psychology has centred on the role of cognitive rigidity in
shaping individuals' political ideologies and worldviews. Early theories in the 1950s posited …

People are motivated to protect their worldviews. One way to protect one's worldviews is
through prejudice toward worldview-dissimilar groups and individuals. The traditional …

The extent to which individual differences in personality traits and cognitive styles diminish
affective polarization (AP) is largely unknown. We address this gap by examining whether …

We report the first investigation of whether observers draw information about mindsets from
behavior, specifically prejudice confrontation. We tested two questions across 10 studies …

Do female CEOs reduce gender-pay disparities in top management teams (TMTs)? Some
scholars draw on social identity theory to argue that, as individuals tend to identify with and …

The goal of the current manuscript is to embed the theory of mindsets about malleability in
workplace contexts. We first define fixed-growth mindsets and the methods that have to date …

Past research has demonstrated that older adults are stereotyped as less malleable than
young adults. Moreover, beliefs that people are less malleable are associated with lower …

In our research examining how people think and talk about immigration, we consistently find
that people want to have a reasonable conversation about politics, but they often decide that …

Seeking to understand and reduce partisan hostility, we propose that humans evolved to
benefit from cultural societies. Societies perform two crucial tasks, which have grown apart …

Variation in free will and control perceptions has been examined across the development of
young children, adults, and in several different countries. In two studies (three samples; total …