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Retracted : It depends on how you look at it: Being versus becoming mindsets determine responses to social comparisons
Author(s) -
Johnson Camille S.,
Stapel Diederik A.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
british journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 2044-8309
pISSN - 0144-6665
DOI - 10.1348/014466609x476827
Subject(s) - mindset , situational ethics , psychology , social psychology , affect (linguistics) , computer science , communication , artificial intelligence
The current studies examine how focusing on evaluation of the current self (a ‘being’ mindset) or focusing on the projection of future selves (a ‘becoming mindset’) influences responses to social comparison information. The studies show that the mindset of individuals, independent of other situational variables, determines whether individuals regard targets as threatening, how targets influence self‐evaluations, and how targets affect performance on relevant tasks. The studies also show that mindsets determine what kinds of social comparison information are influential. In a becoming mindset, people are influenced mainly by information from domains that are considered mutable, whereas in a being mindset, people are influenced by information from both immutable and mutable domains.