People often try to improve their interpersonal skills to satisfy romantic partners. However, when and why a partner appreciates these efforts is an important but underaddressed question. The present research explored how people's theories that interpersonal abilities are either fixed entities or can be changed incrementally affect their responses to relationship partner's efforts at self-impro...

Implicit theories have important implications for students' achievement goals and academic achievement. The Writer(s)-within-community model by Graham (2018) postulates that motivational beliefs stored in the long-term memory, such as implicit goals, influence how one approaches a writing task. Notwithstanding, few empirical studies examined relations among theories, performance. In this study,...

The deenition of concepts is a central problem in commonsense reasoning. Many themes in nonmonotonic reasoning concern implicit and explicit deenability. Implicit deenability in nonmonotonic logic is always relative to the context-the current theory of the world. We show that xed point equations provide a generalization of explicit deenability, which correctly captures the relativized context. ...

Implicit theories of relationships (ITRs) influence goals, motivations, attributions, and behavior in romantic relationships. We developed a model of ITRs that draws from social cognition, motivation, and achievement literatures, and derived conceptual parallels and hypotheses with regard to relationships. It is proposed that ITRs reflect the belief component of a larger system of motivations a...