Processing causally relevant information
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6206572 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard C Sherman (corresponding author), Kam Ming Lim (0000-0003-4814-9595), Steven D Seidel, Kathryne A Sinai, Et Al, Kristina M Newman, et al et al |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 365-376 |
| Publication date | 1995-03-01 |
| 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 | 10.1037/0022-3514.68.3.365 |
| OpenAlex | W2079809678, W4240027745 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Two experiments tested an information-processing model of causal judgment proposed by D. L. Hamilton, P. D. Grubb, D. A. Acorn, T. K. Trolier, and S. Carpenter (1990). In Experiment 1 the explanatory quality (plausibility, sufficiency, and likelihood) of context information pertaining to a behavioral event was varied independently of its implications for internal or external causality. In Experiment 2 perceivers performed tasks requiring either item-specific elaboration or relational encoding of the information in addition to making external versus internal causal attributions. Results imply that (a) perceivers encode the causal potency of individual information items even when the judgment task requires only a general internal versus external attribution and (b) perceivers engage in multiple modes of encoding information, depending on the implicational structure of the information array and on the explanatory quality of the context items
Attribution · Causality (physics · Cognitive psychology · Context (archaeology · Encoding (memory · Epistemology · Information integration · Information processing · Quality (philosophy · Task (project management · Cognitive Science and Mapping · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1994 - 2008 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |