Hilton, Smith and Kim (1995) proposed that making dispositional inferences requires the use of Mill's method of agreement. However, their data were based on "incomplete" information which may have obscured the use of Mill's method of difference. Consistent with this suspicion, a study with "complete" information revealed the joint operation of both Mill's methods. Dispositions to the actor requ...

Attributions—the explanations spouses give to each other’s behavior—have been consistently linked to relationship satisfaction, but little is known about the origins of attributional tendencies. In this study, an actor–partner interdependence model was tested to examine the relationships among pessimistic attributions, anxious attachment, and relationship satisfaction, using married couples (N=...

Individuals who are more physically active, compared to those less typically report favourable perceptions of their physical appearance and functioning (i.e., self-concept). However, there is limited empirical evidence examining how psychological processes associated with activity can affect the strength this relationship. In current study, controllability controllable attributions) was tested ...

s Abstract for Literature Review The current degree of economic inequality in the US is the largest it has been since prior to the Great Depression and growing. Economic inequality is linked to mortality, social capital, interpersonal trust, and democratic participation, beyond the effects of poverty. Two main constructs are reviewed as predictors of support for efforts to reduce inequality: 1)...

Natale, Katja Parents’ Causal Attributions Concerning Their Children’s Academic Achievement Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2007, 54 p. (Jyväskylä Studies in Education, Psychology and Social Research ISSN 0075-4625; 309) ISBN 978-951-39-2900-8 (PDF), 978-951-39-2883-4 (nid.) Diss. This thesis investigated how mothers’ and fathers’ causal attributions concerning their children’s academic ach...

Dominant theoretical approaches in loneliness research emphasize the value of personality characteristics in explaining loneliness. The present study examines whether dysfunctional social strategies and attributions in lonely adolescents can be explained by personality characteristics. A questionnaire survey was conducted with 379 Danish Grade 8 students (M = 14.1 years, SD = 0.4) from 22 geogr...

Many studies have found that people experiencing persecutory delusions have a marked tendency to use external-personal attributions when establishing the causes of negative events. Although nonclinical populations also tend to attribute negative events to external causes, those causes are typically believed to be universal in nature, rather than personal. The central goal of the present study w...

Prosodic information is known to play a role in personality attributions, such as judgements of trustworthiness. Research so far has focused on assessing the determinants of such attributions in static contexts, very often in the form of questionnaires, and not much is known about their dynamics, in particular, how direct experience of behaviour over time influences the interpretation of vocal ...

Attributions for cancer and beliefs about control over cancer were examined for their association with adjustment to breast cancer. Although 95% of the respondents made attributions for their cancer, no particular attribution (e.g., stress, diet) was associated with better adjustment. Analyses of attributions of responsibility for the cancer to the self, environment, another person, or chance y...