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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