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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 13.
Published in final edited form as: Merrill Palmer Q (Wayne State Univ Press). 2004 Jan 1;50(1):86–109. doi: 10.1353/mpq.2004.0004

Table 2.

Mean Malleability Scores by Age Group, With Standard Deviations in Parentheses

Age group
Direction of trait change Children Adolescents Adults
Nice / Mean .62 (.41) .32 (.41) .48 (.46)
Mean / Nice .90 (.24) .92 (.24) .80 (.33)
Smart / Not smart .50 (.46) .28 (.34) .15 (.28)
Not smart / Smart .87 (.28) .88 (.26) .76 (.37)

Note: Malleability scores ranged from 0 to 1, with 0 indicating that change was impossible.