Lay personality knowledge and dispositionist thinking: A knowledge-activation framework

We explicate a knowledge-activation framework depicting the link between lay personality knowledge and dispositional judgments, building on work by Dweck et al., 1995a, Dweck et al., 1995b. According to this framework, most people possess knowledge consistent with an entity theory (personality is fixed) and incremental theory (personality is malleable), which operates according to knowledge-activation principles. Consistent with this claim, we...