Impact of causal attributions on affective reactions to success and failure.

1982/11/01 by Cathy McFarland, Michael G. Ross · 10 citations
Psychology · #Cognitive Abilities and Testing #Education, Achievement, and Giftedness #Psychological and Educational Research Studies #Attribution #Psychology #Social psychology #Developmental psychology

paper · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.43.5.937

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Abstract

Assessed the impact of outcome (success vs failure) and attribution (internal vs external) on affect in an achievement setting. Following the theorizing of B. Weiner et al (1978, 1979), it was anticipated that the outcome manipulation would determine general positive and negative affective reactions

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