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This research found evidence for motivated implicit theories about personality malleability: People perceive their weaknesses as more malleable than their strengths and they expect their present strengths to remain constant, but their present weaknesses to improve in the future. As a consequence, people imagine their future self as a more ideal version of their current self.
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This page is a summary of: Motivated Implicit Theories of Personality, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, April 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0146167216629437.
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