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Nordic Psychology, 2016 Vol. 68, No. 4, 219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19012276.2016.1246828 EDITORIAL Cognitive response style, parents’ theories of the malleability of children’s intelligence, survivors’ reports and parental reflective functioning are the interesting themes for this issue of Nordic Psy - chology. In the first article of this issue, “Do responses to positive affect influence mood reactiv - ity? Exploring cognitive response styles through a mood induction procedure” Malin Olofsson, Matilda Wurm and Katja Boersma explore the interaction between cognitive response styles as measured with the Responses to Positive Aec ff t questionnaire (RPA) and changes in emotional state during an experimental manipulation in a non-clinical sample. Using a pre-test post-test design results reveal that the two positive rumination subscales of the RPA were associated with each other and with positive affect. The results postulate new questions on the conceptualization and functioning of cognitive response styles. In the second article of this issue, “Is children’s intel- ligence malleable? Parental perspectives on implicit theories of intelligence” Riitta Rautiainen, Hannu Räty and Kati Kasanen examine parents’ theories of the malleability of children’s intelli- gence. Using a questionnaire concerning the malleability of intelligence based on Dweck sent to a sample of Finnish parents showing that