Attributional orientations and the prediction of behavior
The attribution–prediction bias
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6203876 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Oscar Ybarra (0000-0002-0268-3242, University of Michigan), Walter G Stephan |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 718-727 |
| Publication date | 1999-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.76.5.718 |
| OpenAlex | W2042696365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 41 |
Consistent with the proposal that people rely on implicit causal theories that relate different types of attributions to behaviors that differ in valence, 3 studies showed that in addition to predicting more positive than negative behavior in the target, participants produced an attribution-prediction bias. This bias indicated that persons with a dispositional orientation predicted more negative and less positive behavior from the target than persons with a situational orientation. The authors produced these findings in Studies I and 2 by manipulating the perceived characteristic motives of a target (dispositional, situational). In Study 3 the authors used a cultural operationalization of attributional orientations by examining the responses of Western students (dispositionalists) and East Asian students (situationalists). Finally, in support of the underlying mechanism, Study 4 showed that activating dispositional or situational knowledge facilitated the encoding of negative and positive behaviors, respectively
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2022 (24) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |