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How Beliefs Shape Thoughts: Implicit Theories Impact the Self-Regulation of Goal Setting

In the present research, we explored whether people’s implicit theories also influence the way people set their goals. Specifically, we suspected that people’s implicit theories affect how they choose to think about their wishes, particularly in the context of fantasy realization theory, which in turn influences their goal setting. Moreover, we investigated whether implicit theories affect the benefits that people gain from using the various self-regulatory modes of thought in the…