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Wise interventions consider the person and the situation together

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2023

Gregory M. Walton Open the ORCID record for Gregory M. Walton [Opens in a new window]  and
David S. Yeager Open the ORCID record for David S. Yeager [Opens in a new window]
Gregory M. Walton
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Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA gwalton@stanford.edu; http://gregorywalton-stanford.weebly.com/
David S. Yeager
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Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA dyeager@utexas.edu; https://txbspi.prc.utexas.edu/
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Abstract

Chater & Loewenstein (C&L) ignore the long history by which social scientists have developed more nuanced and ultimately more helpful ways to understand the relationship between persons and situations. This tradition is reflected and advanced in a large literature on “wise” social–psychological or mindset interventions, which C&L do not discuss yet mischaracterize.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 46 , 2023 , e179
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