Walter D. Scott
Washington State University
36 Papers
221 Citations
Walter D. Scott is an academic researcher from Washington State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognition & Personality. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 36 publications. Previous affiliations of Walter D. Scott include University of Wyoming.
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Papers
Cognitive self-regulation in youth with and without learning disabilities: academic self-efficacy, theories of intelligence, learning vs. performance goal preferences, and effort attributions
TL;DR: The authors found that students with a learning disability were more likely to possess low academic self-efficacy, to believe that intelligence was fixed and nonmalleable, to prefer performance over learning goals, and to interpret the exertion of effort as meaning they possessed limited levels of ability.
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Mood, Self-Efficacy, and Performance Standards: Lower Moods Induce Higher Standards for Performance
TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of induced mood on personal standards for performance and judgments of one's performance capabilities, or self-efficacy judgments, and found that negative mood itself may foster "self-defeating" patterns of cognition.
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The Impact of Negative Affect on Performance Standards: Evidence for an Affect-as-Information Mechanism
Walter D. Scott,Daniel Cervone +1 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated the influence of negative affect on self-regulatory cognition, including the mechanism by which negative affect may induce comparatively higher standards for performance, and found that negative affect had no impact on perceived self-efficacy.
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Age-related differences in goals: testing predictions from selection, optimization, and compensation theory and socioemotional selectivity theory.
TL;DR: Testing whether the goals of younger and older adults differed in ways predicted by socioemotional selectivity theory and selection, optimization, and compensation theory found that age group differences in goals generally supported both theories.
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