Research on exercise identity (EXID) indicates that it is related to negative affect when exercisers are inconsistent or relapse. Although identity theory suggests that causal attributions about this inconsistency elicit negative self-conscious emotions of shame and guilt, no EXID studies have examined this for exercise relapse. Weiner's attribution-based theory of interpersonal motivation (201...

Structural modeling techniques were used to assess relations of attributional style, expectancies, and depression. According to an initial theoretical model, attributions are directly related to expectancies, and expectancies are directly related to depression, but attributions are only indirectly related to depression by means of their relation to expectancies. The results of Study 1 indicated...

We typically explain other people's behaviors by attributing them to the beliefs and motives of an unobservable mind. Although such attributional inferences are critical for understanding the social world, it is unclear whether they rely on processes distinct from those used to understand the nonsocial world. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify brain regions associated wit...

Two studies examined the relation among affective processing measures as assessed by the Affective Information Processing Questionnaire (AIPQ) and smoking indices. The AIPQ assesses attributional style, expectations regarding the strength, frequency, and duration of affective reactions, and expectations regarding the controllability of affective reactions both by smoking and by other means in r...

Informants who describe others' behaviors are perceived as having more of the trait implied by the behavior they describe (the trait transference effect). Associative and attributional explanations for this phenomenon are reviewed and examined in 3 experiments. Findings were inconsistent with attributional interpretations: (a) transference effects persisted with extended coding times, online ju...

Research on a new system implementing the AQ learning methodology, called AQ20, is briefly described, and illustrated by initial results from an experimental version. Like its predecessors, AQ20 is a multi-purpose learning system for inducing general concepts descriptions from concept examples and counter-examples. AQ20 is viewed as a natural induction system because it aims at producing descri...

Reduction of ineffective parenting is promoted in parent training components of mental health treatment for children with externalizing behavior disorders, but minimal research has considered whether disciplinary style and lower abuse risk could also be associated with positive functioning in such children. The present study examined whether lower dysfunctional disciplinary style and child abus...