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Prediction of exam performance by children: evidence for utilization of four pieces of information
(2010-03-14)
Kindergarten through fourth grade children (n=120) predicted exam performance of stimulus students from information about their current motivation and ability. Each kind of information came from two independent sources and ...
An integration-theoretical analysis of cultural and developmental differences in attribution of performance
(2010-03-18)
Singh, Gupta, and Dalal proposed that American and Indian college students differ in their cultural outlook on how motivation and ability determine performance. Americans follow a multiplying rule which implies that effort ...
Prediction of performance from motivation and ability: an appraisal of the cultural difference hypothesis
(2010-03-21)
How do people integrate information about motivation and ability of a person when they predict his performance? As the dynamic motivation factor acts as an amplifier of the static capacity factor, a multiplying rule can ...
Life performance motivation ability opportunity: individual differences in predictive models
(2010-03-14)
Previous research showed that prediction of life performance from information about motivation and ability follows the multiplying rule. The present experiment added a third supposedly multiplying factor, external opportunity, ...
Performance of task-oriented and relation-oriented persons on a reward allocation task
(2010-03-14)
Subjects who scored low and high on Fielder's least preferred coworker scale were provided with information about Behavior and performance of two workers of several groups, and were asked to distribute a fixed sum of money ...