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  • Organizational Psychology
  • Social Psychology

Background:

  • Workplace diversity policies aim for equity but often face resistance.
  • Individual mindsets, or beliefs about attribute malleability, are key to understanding this support or resistance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a fixed-growth mindsets framework for analyzing support for diversity policies.
  • To explore the mechanisms through which mindsets influence diversity policy endorsement.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical review synthesizing existing research on mindsets and diversity.
  • Examination of four proposed mechanisms: effort, bias, attributions, and worldview threat.

Main Results:

  • Mindsets significantly predict support for diversity policies.
  • Beliefs about malleability influence perceptions of effort, bias, attributions, and threats to worldview.

Conclusions:

  • A fixed-growth mindsets approach offers a novel motivational framework for diversity support.
  • This framework can guide future research and organizational strategies to foster broader consensus on diversity initiatives.