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In study 1, the author compared Chinese from Hong Kong and Mainland China with Americans and found that Chinese assigned greater importance to personality-profession fit when making performance forecast. This cross-cultural difference is predicted by Chinese's perception of low occupational mobility and mediated by Chinese's tendency (relative to Americans) to perceive the individuals as more malleable than the world. In Study 2 and 3, the author manipulated participants' belief of occupational mobility and lay belief of the world and personality and replicated the cross-cultural difference in performance forecast with American participants. 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