Information-processing and motivated distortion in the attribution of causality for success and failure
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James M. Gleason
State University of New York at Buffalo
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Robert M. Arkin
University of Missouri-Columbia
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Kelly Shaver
College of William and Mary
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- Keywords:
- social behavior, social psychology, information-processing, motivated, distortion, attribution, causality, success, failure, informational, motivational, observers, behavior, student, therapist, phobia, outcomes
- Abstract
- An experiment was conducted to investigate the influence of both informational and motivational factors on observers' attributions. Observers evaluated the behavior of a "student therapist". Probable Outcome also emerged. However, the strongest motivationally based prediction, an interaction of Personal Involvement and Actual Outcome, was not confirmed.
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- 1979-02-01
- Issue
- Volume 7, 1979, Issue 1
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