About 75 percent of those surveyed had cheated in college. Sex, year in school, grade point average, academic major, fraternity-sorority membership, and extracurricular participation were significantly related to cheating. Conclusions supported the importance of traditional explanatory variables and suggested an interpretation based on attribution…

Investigated teacher attribution of the nature of the handicapped child's problem by ED or LD handicap label and strength of expectancy as a function of amount and type of information. Type and valence, rather than just amount of information, appeared to be more influential of attributioning in decision making. (Author/RC)

Examines the conditions under which information regarding competence would mitigate the negative side of rewards on the intrinsic interest of preschool and elementary school children (N=147). (MP)

A group of 469 undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory psychology class completed questionnaires before and after each of three examinations given over the course of a semester. The purpose of the study was to analyze students' attributions for their own performance on academic examinations. (MP)

This study examines developmental differences in third and sixth graders' and college students' use of distinctiveness, consensus, and consistency information for making causal attributions. (CM)

Examines listeners' use of acoustic properties in making personal attributions. In three experiments, subjects listened to recordings of male speakers answering two interview questions and rated the speakers on a variety of scales. (CM)

Using an open-ended questionnaire, 236 fifth- and sixth-grade pupils attributed their success or failure on a test given in their classroom to eight different causes. Results indicated that the pupils tended to attribute success mainly to external causes and failure mainly to internal causes. (JMB)

Results provide little support for viewing decentering ability as the major cognitive skill underlying developmental trends on tasks of cognitive perspective taking, peer description, humor understanding, and causal attribution. (Author/BH)

Jones and Nisbett (1972) hypothesize that actors attribute their actions to situational requirements whereas observers attribute the same actions to personal dispositions. This hypothesis is critically examined and a reconceptualization is proposed. (Editor/RK)

This study is a preliminary attempt to examine the nature of statements expressing traits as qualities of actions. It investigates the relative importance of five different variables in determining the trait attribution made to a described act. (Author)

Two experiments demonstrated interactive effects between locus of control and expectancy confirmation-disconfirmation in determining attribution of failure. (Editor)

This study was designed to assess the extent to which social role and "just world" considerations would affect perceptions and attributions of responsibility to a rape victim. (Editor)

Examined the benefits of a peer collaborative activity on cognitive strategy use and effectiveness and on metacognitive understanding of strategy use. Found that interaction with children working at a higher level of metacognitive knowledge increased strategy use and induced higher levels of metacognitive thinking. Use of sorting strategy and…

Examined whether aggressive boys' hostile attribution bias extends to processing incoming information. Subjects were asked to segment videotaped actions based on information conditions about the two boys playing in the film. Aggressiveness predicted change in segmentation after the critical event only in the neutral prior-information condition,…

Discusses turning the mathematics failure cycle of students with learning disabilities into a success cycle by using learning strategies and positive attributions. Identifies eight steps to success with learning strategies are as well as six steps to positive attribution in math. The attribution theory is also explained. (CR)