The Positivity Bias in Attributions

Two Cross-Cultural Investigations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2315806
AutoresStephanie H Smith (0000-0001-9530-3896, Indiana University Northwest), Stephanie J Smith (0009-0006-0971-428X, Indiana University Northwest, autor de correspondencia), George I Whitehead (Salisbury State University), Nan M Sussman (College of Staten Island)
Año1990
Volumen21
Número3
Páginas283-301
Fecha de publicación1990-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0221 • E-ISSN: 1552-5422
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0022022190213002
OpenAlexW2125308939
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas20

Two experiments examined whether the attributions people made about others from their own or another culture were subject to a positivity bias, and whether these attributions were affected by a positive in-group bias. In Experiment 1, a Japanese sample made attributions to a person from Japan, the United States, or the Third World who was either promoted or demoted. In Experiment 2, a sample from the United States and the Third World made attributions to a person from the United States or the Third World who was either promoted or demoted. The attributions were not subject to a positive in-group bias. However, the attributions made by the Japanese, Americans, and people from the Third World evidenced a positivity bias, although with cultural variation on the measures on which it was obtained

Attribution · Attribution bias · Development economics · Economics · Sample (material · Subject (documents · Third world · Computer Science · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology