- OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY
- [UNTITLED]
- SHORT CONTENTS
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- The Blossoming of Relationship Science
- Relationships from an Evolutionary Life History Perspective
- An Interdependence Theory Analysis of Close Relationships
- The Role of Attachment Security in Adolescent and Adult Close Relationships
- The Self-Expansion Model of Motivation and Cognition in Close Relationships
- Regulating Interpersonal Risk
- Love Is a Battlefield: Romantic Attraction, Intrasexual Competition, and Conflict between the Sexes
- Cultural Influences on Attraction
- Implicit Theories of Relationships: Destiny and Growth Beliefs
- The Social Psychology of Love
- Error Management in Relationships
- Communal (and Other) Relationships: History, Theory Development, Recent Findings, and Future Directions
- Transference and the Relational Self
- Love, Reality, and Illusion in Intimate Relationships
- Motivations for Promotion or Prevention in Close Relationships
- Empathic Accuracy in Close Relationships
- The Nature of Female Sexuality: Insights into the Dynamics of Romantic Relationships
- Responsiveness
- Regulation Processes in Close Relationships
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Implicit Cognition and Relationship Processes
- Emotion Regulation in Close Relationships
- Emotion in Relationships
- Personality and Relationships
- Interdependence Revisited: Perspectives from Cultural Psychology
- Relationship Maintenance Processes
- Sexuality in Relationships
- Romantic Relationships and Health
- Gratitude and Forgiveness in Relationships
- Couples and Stress: How Demands Outside a Relationship Affect Intimacy within the Relationship
- Toward an Integrative Neuroscience of Relationships
- Social Support Processes in Relationships
- Repeated Measures with Dyads
- What’s Past Is Prologue: Social Developmental Antecedents of Close Relationships
- The Development of Human Reproductive Strategies: Toward an Integration of Life History and Sexual Selection Models
- Divorce and Close Relationships: Findings, Themes, and Future Directions
- The Waving of the Relationship Flag
- INDEX
Abstract and Keywords
The beliefs people hold about how relationships form, change, and develop predict how they will think, perceive, respond, and behave in romantic relationships from beginning to end. In this chapter, we review research on a particular set of implicit theories, termed destiny and growth beliefs. Destiny belief concerns the stability of one's impressions about romantic relationships and involves believing that relationships are either meant to be or they are not. Growth belief concerns the perceived stability of problems in the relationship and reflects the assumption that relationships can be maintained and problems can be overcome. These beliefs operate as fundamental assumptions about the nature of romantic relationships, and as such, they guide inferences about relationship experiences, and the ways people attempt to cope with relationship threats and challenges. We first provide a discussion of the conceptual origins of these beliefs. We then review measurement approaches and emerging themes, and discuss future directions for additional contributions to this literature.
Keywords: destiny belief, growth belief, relationship conflict, self-expansion, romantic relationships
C. Raymond Knee, Department of Psychology, University of Houston
Kristen N. Petty, Department of Psychology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
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- OXFORD LIBRARY OF PSYCHOLOGY
- [UNTITLED]
- SHORT CONTENTS
- Oxford Library of Psychology
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- The Blossoming of Relationship Science
- Relationships from an Evolutionary Life History Perspective
- An Interdependence Theory Analysis of Close Relationships
- The Role of Attachment Security in Adolescent and Adult Close Relationships
- The Self-Expansion Model of Motivation and Cognition in Close Relationships
- Regulating Interpersonal Risk
- Love Is a Battlefield: Romantic Attraction, Intrasexual Competition, and Conflict between the Sexes
- Cultural Influences on Attraction
- Implicit Theories of Relationships: Destiny and Growth Beliefs
- The Social Psychology of Love
- Error Management in Relationships
- Communal (and Other) Relationships: History, Theory Development, Recent Findings, and Future Directions
- Transference and the Relational Self
- Love, Reality, and Illusion in Intimate Relationships
- Motivations for Promotion or Prevention in Close Relationships
- Empathic Accuracy in Close Relationships
- The Nature of Female Sexuality: Insights into the Dynamics of Romantic Relationships
- Responsiveness
- Regulation Processes in Close Relationships
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Implicit Cognition and Relationship Processes
- Emotion Regulation in Close Relationships
- Emotion in Relationships
- Personality and Relationships
- Interdependence Revisited: Perspectives from Cultural Psychology
- Relationship Maintenance Processes
- Sexuality in Relationships
- Romantic Relationships and Health
- Gratitude and Forgiveness in Relationships
- Couples and Stress: How Demands Outside a Relationship Affect Intimacy within the Relationship
- Toward an Integrative Neuroscience of Relationships
- Social Support Processes in Relationships
- Repeated Measures with Dyads
- What’s Past Is Prologue: Social Developmental Antecedents of Close Relationships
- The Development of Human Reproductive Strategies: Toward an Integration of Life History and Sexual Selection Models
- Divorce and Close Relationships: Findings, Themes, and Future Directions
- The Waving of the Relationship Flag
- INDEX