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Download full textCroxton, Jack S.; Miller, Arthur G. – 1979
The relationship between perceived freedom and the attribution of attitudes was investigated. Observers were asked to infer an attitude from an actor's behavior when the actor's behavioral freedom was ambiguous. Attributions of attitude corresponded less to the behavior when it was unexpected and when the actor's potential lack of freedom was made…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
Peer reviewedBrown, Sandra A.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1985
Compared the reinforcement expectancies of adult alcoholics with beliefs of men and women in alcohol treatment programs, hospitalized medical patients, and college students through the Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ). Results indicated the previously defined AEQ beliefs apply to the alcoholic population and these populations significantly…
Descriptors: Adults, Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns, College Students
Brown, Sandra A. – 1983
Affective and physiological responses, interpersonal interaction, and alcohol consumption have been significantly correlated with cognitive factors in defining the behavioral effects of alcohol. To investigate alcohol reinforcement expectancies at the abusive end of the drinking continuum, 305 male and female adult alcoholics enrolled in alcohol…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns
Berman, Jeffrey S.; And Others – 1979
Previous research indicates that social beliefs can act in a self-fulfilling manner, affecting responses to individuals and thereby constraining these individuals to behave in ways that spuriously confirm attitudes about them. The possible role of self-perception, i.e., whether targets of such self-fulfilling prophecies not only alter their…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns, Expectation
Crocker, Jennifer; Taylor, Shelley E. – 1978
The influence of expectations and hypothesis testing on subjects' use of particular types of evidence to estimate covariations was investigated. Results of the first study indicated that all subjects relied most on positive confirming evidence and did not over-utilize evidence that was consistent with expectations. Results of the second study…
Descriptors: Adults, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Expectation
Peer reviewedStaub, Ervin – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Comparative Analysis
McWhirter, Elizabeth P. – 1979
Interpretation of experimental tasks is influenced by knowledge of the language used, by assessment of what the experimenter intends, and by how subjects themselves would normally represent the physical situation. Whether these processes in which children engage in cognitive studies differ from those employed by adults in similar tasks was…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Children
