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Linkages between causal ascriptions, emotion, and behavior
Concetta PastorelliBernard WeinerGian Vittorio Caprarasubject
Developmental NeuroscienceSocial Psychology05 social sciencesDevelopmental and Educational Psychology050109 social psychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesLife-span and Life-course StudiesPsychologyAttributionSocial psychology050105 experimental psychologySocial Sciences (miscellaneous)Educationdescription
Italian schoolboys between the ages of 9 and 10 participated in three experiments guided by attribution theory as conceptualised by Weiner (1985, 1986). In Experiment 1, following teacher-emotional feedback of anger or sympathy for failure, attributional inferences regarding low ability or lack of effort as the cause of that failure were rated. In Experiment 2, controllable and uncontrollable causes of a social transgression were given, and children rated the anticipated anger of the “victim” and their intention to withhold or reveal the cause. In Experiment 3, effects of perceived causality and related emotions of anger and sympathy (pity) with regard to helping behaviour were investigated. Results replicate previous US findings and largely support the established linkages between attribution-emotion-action as proposed by Weiner (1986).
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-01-01 |