Encyclopedia of Sociology

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ATTRIBUTION THEORY

Della Fave, L. Richard 1980 ‘‘The Meek Shall Not Inher-
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Hamilton, V. Lee, and Shigeru Hagiwara 1992 ‘‘Roles,
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Heider, Fritz 1958 The Psychology of Interpersonal Rela-
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Hewstone, Miles 1989 Causal Attribution: From Cognitive
Processes to Collective Beliefs. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.


———, and Jos M. F. Jaspars 1987 ‘‘Covariation and
Causal Attribution: A Logical Model of the Intuitive
Analysis of Variance.’’ Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology 53:663–672.


Howard, Judith A., and Carolyn Allen 1990 ‘‘Making
Meaning: Revealing Attributions Through Analyses
of Readers’ Responses.’’ Social Psychology Quarterly
52:280–298.


Howard, Judith A., and Randy Levinson 1985 ‘‘The
Overdue Courtship of Attribution and Labeling.’’
Social Psychology Quarterly 48:191–202.


Jones, Edward E., and Keith E. Davis 1965 ‘‘From Acts to
Dispositions: The Attribution Process in Person Per-
ception.’’ Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
2:219–266.


Jones, Edward E., and Daniel McGillis 1976 ‘‘Corre-
spondent Inferences and the Attribution Cube: A
Comparative Reappraisal.’’ In J. H. Harvey, W. Ickes,
and R. F. Kidd, eds., New Directions in Attribution
Research, Vol. 1. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.


Kelley, Harold H. 1967 ‘‘Attribution Theory in Social
Psychology.’’ Nebraska Symposium of Motivation
15:192–238.


———1973 ‘‘The Processes of Causal Attribution.’’ Ameri-
can Psychologist 28:107–128.


Little, Steven G., Robert C. Sterling, and Daniel H.
Tingstrom 1996 ‘‘The Influence of Geographic and
Racial Cues on Evaluation of Blame.’’ The Journal of
Social Psychology 136:373–379.


McArthur, Leslie Z. 1972 ‘‘The How and What of Why:
Some Determinants and Consequences of Causal
Attribution.’’ Journal of Personality and Social Psycholo-
gy 22:171–197.


McMillen, Curtis, and Susan Zuravin 1997 ‘‘Attributions
of Blame and Responsibility for Child Sexual Abuse
and Adult Adjustment.’’ Journal of Interpersonal Vio-
lence 12:30–48.


Miller, Joan G. 1984 ‘‘Culture and the Development of
Everyday Social Explanation.’’ Journal of Personality
and Social Psychology 46:961–978.


Mizokawa, Donald T., and David B. Ryckman 1990
‘‘Attributions of Academic Success and Failure: A
Comparison of Six Asian-American Ethnic Groups.’’
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 21:434–451.
Moghaddam, Fathali M., Donald M. Taylor, Wallace E.
Lambert, and Amy E. Schmidt 1995 ‘‘Attributions
and Discrimination: A Study of Attributions to the
Self, the Group, and External Factors among Whites,
Blacks, and Cubans in Miami.’’ Journal of Cross-Cultur-
al Psychology 26:209–220.
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Moskowitz, G. B. 1996 ‘‘The Mediational Effects of
Attributions and Information Processing in Minority
Social Influence.’’ British Journal of Social Psychology
35:47–66.
Power, J. Gerard, Sheila T. Murphy, and Gail Coover
1996 ‘‘Priming Prejudice: How Stereotypes and Coun-
ter-Stereotypes Influence Attribution of Responsi-
bility and Credibility among Ingroups and Outgroups.’’
Human Communication Research 23:36–58.
Reese, Laura T., and Ronald E. Brown 1995 ‘‘The
Effects of Religious Messages on Racial Identity and
System Blame among African Americans.’’ The Jour-
nal of Politics 57:24–43.
Ross, Lee 1977 ‘‘The Intuitive Psychologist and His
Shortcomings: Distortions in the Attribution Proc-
ess.’’ Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
19:174–220.
Singh, Anup K. 1989 ‘‘Attribution Research on Poverty:
A Review.’’ Psychologia 32:143–148.
Tuss, Paul, Jules Zimmer, and Hsiu-Zu Ho 1995 ‘‘Causal
Attributions of Underachieving Fourth-Grade Stu-
dents in China, Japan, and the United States.’’ Jour-
nal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 26:408–425.
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bution Theory. Morristown, N.J.: General Learn-
ing Press.
———1985 ‘‘’Spontaneous’ Causal Thinking.’’ Psycho-
logical Bulletin 97:74–84.
———, Dan Russell, and David Lerman 1978 ‘‘Affective
Consequences of Causal Ascription.’’ In J. H. Har-
vey, W. Ickes., and R. F. Kidd, eds., New Directions in
Attribution Research, Vol. 3. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Wilder, David A., Andrew F. Simon, and Myles Faith
1996 ‘‘Enhancing the Impact of Counterstereotypic
Information: Dispositional Attributions for Deviance.’’
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 71:276–287.
Wiley, Mary Glenn, and Kathleen S. Crittenden 1992
‘‘By Your Attributions You Shall Be Known: Conse-
quences of Attributional Accounts for Professional
and Gender Identities.’’ Sex Roles 27:259–276.
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