Journal article
Two Different Views on the World Around Us: The World of Uniformity versus Diversity
PloS one, Vol.11(12), pp.e0168589-e0168589
12/15/2016
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168589
PMCID: PMC5158088
PMID: 27977788
Abstract
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, we found that compared to incremental theorists, entity theorists estimated a population mean from a sample with a greater level of confidence (Studies 1a and 1b), expected more homogeneity among the entities within a population (Study 2), and perceived an extreme value to be more indicative of an outlier (Study 3). These results suggest that individuals are likely to use their implicit self-theory orientations (entity theory versus incremental theory) to see a population in general as a constitution either of homogeneous or heterogeneous entities.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Two Different Views on the World Around Us: The World of Uniformity versus Diversity
- Creators
- JaeHwan Kwon - Baylor UniversityDhananjay Nayakankuppam - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- PloS one, Vol.11(12), pp.e0168589-e0168589
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0168589
- PMID
- 27977788
- PMCID
- PMC5158088
- NLM abbreviation
- PLoS One
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- eISSN
- 1932-6203
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/15/2016
- Academic Unit
- Marketing
- Record Identifier
- 9984380432402771
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