Static Versus Dynamic Theories and the Perception of Groups: Different Routes to Different Destinations

By Sheri R. Levy, Jason E. Plaks, Ying-yi Hong, Chi-Yue Chiu, Carol S. Dweck. 2001

183 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Ying-yi Hong
2. Nick Haslam
3. Sheri R. Levy

In Social Psychology

1. Ying-yi Hong
2. Brock Bastian
3. Chi-Yue Chiu
4. Sheri R. Levy
5. Nick Haslam
6. Yoshihisa Kashima
7. P. Bain
8. Joseph F. Rocereto

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Ying-yi Hong
2. Sheri R. Levy
3. Chi-Yue Chiu
4. Brock Bastian
5. Yoshihisa Kashima
6. P. Bain
7. Nick Haslam
8. Marina Puzakova

Citations in the corpus

• Lay Theories and Intergroup Relations (2006, background): “Research on entity and incremental theories with younger participants tends to replicate work with adults showing that the lay theories emerge early in life and are used in the same way across age groups (see Levy et al., 2001).”
• When Humanizing Brands Goes Wrong: The Detrimental Effect of Brand Anthropomorphization amid Product Wrongdoings (2013, background): “Plaks et al. (2001) show that entity theorists who initially formed poor expectations of a target (i.e., poor academic performance) were insensitive to a moderate amount of counterfactual information (i.e., good performance on a test).”
• Psychological Essentialism, Implicit Theories, and Intergroup Relations (2006, background): “With the exception of SDO, all of these scales were employed by Levy et al. (1998). In an ostensibly separate part of the study, participants rated their level of agreement with 108 stereotypical attributes (12 9 categories), the average level constituting our measure of stereotype endorsement. Part”
• The Enduring Appeal of ‘Learning Styles’ (2010, background): “Individuals (or cultures) that hold an entity model of ability—and any other human attributes, including personality—show particular patterns of ‘people perception’ (Levy et al., 2001).”
• Psychological essentialism and stereotype endorsement (2006, background): “Levy et al. (2001) argued that entity theorists hold a static view of human nature that deeply aVects how * Corresponding author.”