Lay theories of personality and helping among Chinese undergraduates
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In all agencies, lay beliefs of a person are closely related to frequency, tendency and quality of prosocial behaviors. Potential helpers who hold an incremental theory of personality (belief that a person’s attributes are malleable), will be more willing to help socially stigmatized groups than those who hold an entity theory of personality (belief that a person’s attributes are fixed (Karafantis & Levy, 2004; West, 2003). Based on this recent evidence, we examined the relationship between lay theories of personality and helping in a Chinese population.
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Jianxin Zhang, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science, 4A Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100101. Phone: +86 10- 6485-5883; Fax: +86 10-6487-2070; Email: [email protected] or [email protected]