CHAPTER OUTLINE
Why Attributions Are So Important
Attribution Theory: How Do We Explain Attributions?
- Commonsense psychology in everyday life: Heider
- Correspondent inference: Jones and Davis
- The covariation model: Kelley
- Toward explanations of emotions and attributions
- Assessing attribution theory
- Motivation for attributions
- Agent and target in attributions
What Are the Source of Attributions?
- Culture
- Personality: locus of control and attributional style
- Applications: education and health
- Attributional style among individuals and societies
Attributional Biases
- The fundamental attribution error
- How universal is the fundamental attribution error?
- The actor-observer effect
- Self-serving biases
- Explaining self-serving attributional biases
- Attributions and intergroup behavior
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