You promised you'd change: How incremental and entity theorists react to a romantic partner's promised change attempts

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 570-574

  Kammrath, Lara K ^a   Peetz, Johanna ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attribution; Close relationship; Implicit theory; Partner regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857138142     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.10.015     Document Type: Article

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