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Discounting and Augmentation of Dispositional and Causal Attributions

open access: yesPsychologica Belgica, 2006
This article investigates whether and how discounting and augmentation of dispositional and causal attributions differ between each other. In three experiments, the strength of a causal or dispositional attribution to a target actor (or object) was ...
Frank Van Overwalle
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Investigating the impact of causal attributions on anorexia nervosa stigma [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Eating Disorders
Background Stigmatisation of eating disorders can have debilitating consequences for individuals experiencing such conditions, such as reduced help-seeking and physical and mental deterioration. Dispositional attribution of blame appears to be central to
Rebecca Forde, Helen O’Shea
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Experimentation-related causal attributions of German secondary school students

open access: yesCogent Education, 2021
Students’ causal attributions play an important role in recent studies due to their effects on academic self-concept and performances. Most common causal attributions are students’ ability, effort, task difficulty, and chance.
Karsten Damerau   +3 more
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The influence of causal attribution of parents on developing the child enuresis [PDF]

open access: yesPsihologija, 2003
Causal attributions are affirmed as a cognitive element able to explain emotional and motivational aspects of behaviour of some categories of adult psychiatric patients, primarily depressive ones.
Jerković Ivan
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Did Chinese children with imaginary companions attribute more agencies to non-human items: Evidences from behavioral cues and appearance characteristics

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Previous studies have focused on the relationship between imaginary companions (ICs) and children’s social developments. As far as we know, few studies have focused on the relationship between ICs and children’s agency attributions.
Lin Qiyi   +3 more
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How does the public understand the causes of mental disorders? An analysis of Irish news media before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
Public perceptions of the determinants of mental illness have important implications for attitudes and stigma, but minimal previous research has explored how causal attributions are spontaneously invoked in everyday public discourse.
Leigh Huggard, Cliódhna O'Connor
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Psychometric Properties of the Causal Attributions Scale for Reading Comprehension

open access: yesAvances en Psicología Latinoamericana, 2023
Causal attributions, achievement goals, and self-efficacy comprise the motivational dimension of self-regulated learning. Due to the absence of scales to assess the causal attributions of Brazilian middle school students, this study aimed to investigate
Adriana Satico Ferraz   +3 more
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Depression, School Performance, and the Veridicality of Perceived Grades and Causal Attributions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
An external criterion was assessed to test whether depressives have distorted perceptions of covariation information and whether their attributions are consistent with this information.
Binser, Martin J.   +1 more
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The Preference for Joint Attributions Over Contrast-Factor Attributions in Causal Contrast Situations

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
A current issue about causal attribution is whether people take simple contrast-factor attributions or complex joint attributions in contrast situations. For example, a stone does not dissolve in water and a piece of salt dissolves in water.
Moyun Wang, Mingyi Zhu
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Is Honesty the Best Policy? Examining the Effect of Product Safety Communication on Blame Attributions in Causal Chains

open access: yesAmerican Business Review, 2022
This paper extends research on attribution theory through three studies examining how the accuracy and explicitness of product safety information communicated to various entities within a causal chain influences blame attributions after an accident ...
William G. Obenauer, Michael J. Kalsher
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