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Personal Causality and Attribution of Responsibility
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Ugwuegbu, D. Chimaeze; Hendrick, Clyde – Social Behavior and Personality, 1974
This study examined the relationship between the severity of negative consequences of a blameworthy behavior and attribution of responsibility for that behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Psychological Patterns, Research Projects, Responses
Thought and Number of Cognitions as Determinants of Attitude Change
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Tesser, Abraham; Cowan, Claudia L. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1975
Previous research has shown that thinking about some attitude object results in more polarized attitudes than being distracted from thinking about the object. In this study, 64 subjects indicate their attitudes toward fictitious persons. After thinking about the person or being distracted from thinking about the person, they again scaled their…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Measurement
The Appropriateness of Situational Disclosures and the Perceptions of Interpersonal Attraction and Adjustment.
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Winum, Paul C.; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1982
Investigated the appropriateness of self-disclosure in relation to the concept of disclosure flexibility defined as the modulation of disclosure in accordance with target and setting conditions. Subjects rated contrived protocols with varied disclosure appropriateness. Results indicated perceptions of self-disclosure were contingent on…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), College Students, Congruence (Psychology), Disclosure