Shamala Kumar

TL;DR: Investigation of perceivers' inferences about the morality of target persons who engaged in aggressive behavior suggests that perceived motives play an important role in dispositional inference and pose a problem for models that focus primarily on perceived causality, assumptions about base rates, or diagnosticity.

TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between changes in perceptions of competence and changes in achievement goals across a college semester for students enrolled in an introductory psychology course and found that self-efficacy for learning and normative perceived ability were predicted to relate to changes in performance goals, but not mastery goals.

TL;DR: This article investigated the impact of achievement goals on risk-taking behavior and found that participants were more likely to select a moderate level of difficulty following ego-involving or neutral instructions, while men reported higher levels of perceived ability than women.

TL;DR: This article tested the prediction that work-overload has differing relationships with organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) depending on who primarily benefits from such behaviour and the extent to which such behavior is beneficial.