BACKGROUND The concept of achievement is important to study the professional development. In medicine there are gender inequalities in career. The purpose was to know and compare the professional achievement's perceptions and attributions of female and male primary care physicians in Andalusia. METHOD Qualitative study with 12 focus groups (October 2009 to November 2010). POPULATION primary...

The mechanisms underlying the association between expressed emotion (EE) and the prognosis in early psychosis are still not well understood. Based on the attributional model, this study investigated the association of criticism and Emotional Over-Involvement (EOI) with symptoms and functioning in At-Risk Mental State (ARMS) and First-Episode Psychosis (FEP) patients, and whether these associati...

36 college students participated in a study to determine the role of causal attributions of success and failure on the modification of self-esteem. Although Brockner (1979~ has suggested that the key to augmenting self-esteem is the increasing of positive self-evaluation that follows success, several studies suggest that it is not the positive self-evaluation after success but the negative self...

This article introduces the notion of genetic essentialist biases: cognitive biases associated with essentialist thinking that are elicited when people encounter arguments that genes are relevant for a behavior, condition, or social group. Learning about genetic attributions for various human conditions leads to a particular set of thoughts regarding those conditions: they are more likely to be...

Philosophers and psychologists often assume that responsibility blame only apply to certain agents. But do our ordinary concepts of reflect these assumptions? I investigate one recent debate where assumptions have been applied—the back-and-forth over how explain the impact norms on causal attributions. prominent case it has found matter for attributions, but is claimed not because involves arti...

According to the author's critique, Reinke's article about the Frankfurt project for criminal offenders omits any genuine psychoanalytic reflection on the attributions of subject and object, culprit and victim, therapist and patient. Given this omission, these attributions cannot be incorporated or resolved within the intended process of change.

Title: HOW DID YOU GET IN? ATTRIBUTIONS OF PREFERENTIAL SELECTION IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS Archie L. Bates, III, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor Katherine J. Klein Department of Psychology Minorities are often suspected beneficiaries (e.g., Heilman, 1994) of affirmative action—that is, they are individuals who attribute or perceive that others attribute their selection for a job ...

In 2 studies, we investigated victim attributions (Study 1) and outcomes (Study 2) for workplace aggression and sexual harassment. Drawing on social categorization theory, we argue that victims of workplace aggression and sexual harassment may make different attributions about their mistreatment. In Study 1, we investigated victim attributions in an experimental study. We hypothesized that vict...

BACKGROUND Relapse is increased in people with psychosis who live with carers with high expressed emotion (EE). Attributional style has been used to understand EE at a psychological level. Previous studies have investigated carer appraisals for negative events in the patient's life. We therefore aimed to examine spontaneous carer attributions for both negative and positive events. Further, we d...

Despite being widely debated throughout the scientific community, the concept of food addiction remains a popular explanation for overeating and obesity amongst the lay public. Overeating is often accompanied by feelings of guilt and dietary concern, and this may lead people to attribute their eating to an addiction in order to minimise personal responsibility. Research also indicates that food...