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Control and Belief in the Just World: What's Good Also Can Be Bad.
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Feinberg, Richard A.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Two experiments investigated the relationship between the magnitude of motivation for control over the environment and tendency to derogate victims. Manipulated situational controllability and uncontrollability within a learned helplessness procedure and assessed derogation of a victimized stranger. Results indicated that motivation and need for…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Beliefs, College Students, Expectation
The Role of Depression and Sex Differences in Attributions Related to Problematic Social Situations.
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Calhoun, James F; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Evaluated the hypothesis that depressed students would tend to make more internal and stable attributions of causality in potentially problematic social situations than nondepressed students. Depressed and nondepressed students rated vignettes for internal/external causality and along a stable/unstable dimension. Results supported the hypothesis.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Depression (Psychology), Higher Education