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Yaffe, Peter E.; Mancuso, James C. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
College students (N=308) were asked to function in a judgmental activity assumed to correspond to the diagnostic activity of categorizing a target person as "mentally ill." Analysis of scores shows subjects regard the target person as more negative and more "maladjusted" when the interviewer enacts expected appropriate professional interest.…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Counseling Effectiveness, Interaction Process Analysis
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Miller, Dale T.; And Others – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1978
This paper describes two experiments conducted to assess the impact of the need for effective control on attributions made in a conflict situation. Subjects were college students. (CM)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Interaction Process Analysis
Blakey, Sherry L.; Arkin, Robert M. – 1977
The influence of empathy on observers' attributions for an outcome achieved by an actor was examined as well as self-presentational strategies when observers either expected to assume the actor's role later (Role-Playing). On videotape, observer-subjects (N=160) watched an actor succeed or fail at an interpersonal influence task, after being given…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, College Students, Empathy, Evaluation Methods
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Gouran, Dennis S.; Bradley, Patricia Hayes – 1979
After 24 triads of college students discussed hypothetical situations of serious and moderately serious acts of plagiarism by either high or low status individuals, they designated a punishment. The hypothesis was that the severity of the sanction would be a joint function of the severity of the act, the attribution of responsibility for the act,…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Problems, Cheating, College Students