The attributional norm of internality and depressive sensitivity to social information
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6204973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gifford Weary (The Ohio State University, corresponding author), John S Jordan, Martha G Hill |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1283-1293 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| 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//0022-3514.49.5.1283 |
| PMID | 4078677 |
| OpenAlex | W1988782147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 3 |
Two studies examined the existence, within an achievement-related context, of a social norm favoring internal explanations for task performances. In the first study, we investigated the reactions of observers to an actor's high, moderate, or low self-attribution of causal responsibility for his negative performance outcome on an ostensibly standardized aptitude test. The results indicated that the actor was evaluated more positively to the degree that he accepted more personal responsibility for his performance. In the second study, we examined the reactions of depressed and nondepressed observers to an actor's high or low self-attributions of causal responsibility for his poor performance on a test of analytical ability. On the basis of the notion that the chronic lack of control and resultant uncertainty, presumably characteristic of depressed persons, motivates attributional information processing, we expected depressed observers to be more sensitive to the actor's violation of the norm of internality and to respond with more social disapproval than nondepressed observers. Results generally were consistent with this reasoning. Experimental findings are discussed in terms of the interpersonal implications of expressed attributions.
Attribution · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Interpersonal communication · Norm (philosophy · Social cognition · Behavioral Health and Interventions · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
People as resources
Normativeness and individualism
The Causal Uncertainty Model Revisited
On being sad and mistaken
Level and instability of day-to-day psychological well-being and risk for depression
On Becoming What We Might Have Been
Depression and the impression-formation continuum
Effects of Causal Uncertainty on the Dispositional Attribution Process
Effect of depression on quantity and quality of social inferences
Depressives' future-event schemas and the social inference process
| Unique citing works | 10 |
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| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2015 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |