Students' beliefs and goals can powerfully influence their learning success. Those who believe intelligence is a fixed entity (entity theorists) tend to emphasize 'performance goals,' leaving them vulnerable to negative feedback and likely to disengage from challenging learning opportunities. In contrast, students who believe intelligence is malleable (incremental theorists) tend to emphasize '...

Family systems theory and attachment theory have important similarities and complementarities. Here we consider two areas in which the theories converge: (a) in family system theorists' description of an overly close, or "enmeshed," mother-child dyad, which attachment theorists conceptualize as the interaction of children's ambivalent attachment and mothers' preoccupied attachment; (b) in famil...

Previous research has shown that people differ in their implicit theories about the essential characteristics of intelligence and emotions. Some people believe these characteristics to be predetermined and immutable (entity theorists), whereas others believe that these characteristics can be changed through learning and behavior training (incremental theorists). The present study provides evide...

Daniel Bell (1919–2011) and Manuel Castells (1942–) are the grand theorists of information age. The article provides a detailed, up-to-date, comparative analysis their writings. It begins with methodologies, identifying numerous commonalities in post-Marxian frameworks. substance theories is then examined, where it shown that both plausibly explain contemporary social reality terms interplay th...

Some applications of the odd Poisson bracket developed by Kharkov's theorists are represented.

According to the moral error theory, all judgments are false. Until lately, most theorists were local theorists; they targeted specifically and less skeptical of other normative areas. These now face so-called “prudential parity objections”, according which whatever evidence there is in favor theory also for a prudential theory. The present paper rejects three objections: one based on alleged i...