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Anderson, Craig A. – 1981
Research has shown that attributing failure to lack of ability leads to lower motivation than does attributing the failure to lack of effort. An attributional model of motivation and performance following failure was tested with college students (N=63), who were preselected on the basis of their attributional styles for interpersonal failures, as…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Expectation, Failure, Individual Power
Maddi, Salvatore R. – 1980
In order to give the psychological conception of alienation greater cogency relative to the influence of sociological alienation, research is needed that ties alienation attitudes to individual personal behavior. It was hypothesized that the stronger the alienation attitudes of people, the weaker will be their exploratory behavior. Thus,…
Descriptors: Alienation, Attitudes, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns
Mower, Judith C. – 1980
The interactive effects of implicit normative and explicit situational consensus information were examined regarding the processes of causal attribution and evaluation. Stimulus items were single sentence descriptions of antisocial and prosocial behaviors representing the extremes of high and low normative consensus in each behavior category, as…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Attribution Theory, Behavior Theories, Cognitive Processes
Goggin, William C. – 1981
A model of persuasion suggests that individuals comply with a prediction of their behavior because they are persuaded by that prediction; a model of threat suggests that they defy prediction because of its threat of control. College students with either internal (N=20) or external (N=20) loci of control were informed of the accuracy of the…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavioral Science Research, Expectation, Individual Differences