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Conservatism and the Perception of Self and Others.
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Innes, J. M. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1978
A study of the extent to which people are likely to attribute traits to other people rather more than to themselves produced support for the Jones and Nisbett hypothesis. The level of trait attribution in the present study was higher than that obtained in previous studies. (Author)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Foreign Countries, Perception
On the Use of Single Sentence Descriptions of Behavior in Attribution Research.
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Kassin, Saul M.; Lowe, Charles A. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1979
Investigated the effects of the consensus and sentence structure of single sentence descriptions of different behaviors on causal attributions. High consensus produced less person attribution than did low consensus, and passive items produced more stimulus attribution than did active items. (Author)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Influences
Perceived Mental Illness and Diminished Responsibility: A Study of Attributions.
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Sadava, Stan W.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1980
Examined the relationship between perceived mental illness and attribution of responsibility. Subjects evaluated data from various accident cases. Although greater mental illness was attributed to alcoholism and paranoid cases, greater responsibility was attributed to the alcoholic. Only in the normal case was greater responsibility related to…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Attribution Theory, Foreign Countries, Human Relations
Swimming Upstream against the Fundamental Attribution Error: Subjects' Weak Generalizations from the Darley and Batson Study.
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Pietromonaco, Paula R.; Nisbett, Richard E. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Examined whether reading the Darley and Batson study served to change subjects' understanding of the determinants of helping, and if subjects would come to regard degree of hurry as an important predictor in similar helping situations. Found subjects predicting helping behavior in similar situations were influenced moderately by hurry. (RC)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Beliefs, Cognitive Processes, College Students
First Impressions of Talking Rates in Opposite-Sex and Same-Sex Interactions.
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Kleinke, Chris L.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1979
Results indicate a positive relationship between talking rate and leadership choice. People show the greatest liking for those with moderate levels of talking. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Discussion Groups, Interaction, Interpersonal Attraction
Attribution of Personal Characteristics in Two Cultures.
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Quereshi, M. Y. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1978
American and Pakistani college and high school students rated self and 15 significant others on a rating scale. Results demonstrated substantial cross-cultural generality of psychosocial characteristics attributed to self and others and significant cultural differences in self-esteem and esteem of others as well as other reported results.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Individual Characteristics
Motivational Influence of Behavioral Desirability on Actors' and Observers' Attributions
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Lowe, Charles A.; Hansen, Ranald D. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1976
The proposition that actors favor environmental attribution and observers personal attribution was investigated. Psychology students attributed causality from two perspectives for verbally-described behaviors. It was concluded that motivational considerations mediated actor-observer differences and that perspective differences represent a…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Experimental Psychology, Locus of Control, Motivation
Black Jurors' Personality Trait Attribution to a Rape Case Defendant
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Ugwuegbu, Denis Chimaeze E. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1976
Male and female subjects (N=186) participated in a simulated jury experiment in which race of the victim, race of the defendant, and amount of evidence against the defendant were varied. Results indicated racial similarity of the defendant and/or victim to subject jurors influenced levels of negative traits attributed to the defendant. (Author)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Black Attitudes, Decision Making, Interaction Process Analysis