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Peer reviewedWeiner, Bernard – Review of Educational Research, 1994
Research documents that attributions of failure resulting from lack of ability result in less punishment from others than do ascriptions to lack of effort. This paper provides a conceptual analysis of these empirical findings, guided by a taxonomy of causal thinking. Process and functional understandings of achievement strivings are distinguished.…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement Need, Attribution Theory, Causal Models
