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  1. School of Education, University of New South Wales, A35 – Education Building, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Andrew J. Martin, Keiko Bostwick, Rebecca J. Collie & Ana L. Tarbetsky

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  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

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Martin, A.J., Bostwick, K., Collie, R.J., Tarbetsky, A.L. (2016). Implicit Theories of Intelligence. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_980-1

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