“…Third, our results also suggest that scholars may need to take individuals' lay beliefs about work passion pursuit into account when theorizing about or assessing the beneficial effects of passion for work. Consider that to date, the evidence for a relationship between passion and job performance is surprisingly mixed: While some studies have found a significant but weak relationship (e.g., Astakhova & Porter, 2015;Ho et al, 2011;McAllister et al, 2017), other studies have not found a significant relationship (Birkeland & Buch, 2015;Ho, Kong, Lee, Dubreuil, & Forest, 2018;Ho & Pollack, 2014). The current results may provide insight into why the evidence is mixed.…”