From Dispositional Attributions to Behavior Motives The Folk-Conceptual Theory and Implications for Communication

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalya N. Bazarova ◽  
Jeffrey T. Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Dispositional Attributions

Social attribution, correspondence bias, and the emergence of stereotypes *This research has been completed in partial requirement of a doctoral dissertation of the first author under the supervision of the second author. We wish to thank the members of the social psychology division at the University of Louvain at Louvain-la-Neuve, especially Steve Rocher and Emanuele Castano for their insightful comments on preliminary drafts. This paper has been enriched by feedbacks received from Russell Spears, Roos Vonk, Margit Oswald, and anonymous reviewers. Many thanks to Philippe Kemp and Christophe Remy for their assistance in running the study, and to the students who volunteered to appear on the video. This research has been presented at the Social Cognition workshop of the Kurt Lewin Institute, workshop held at the Free University of Amsterdam in April 1998: we want to thank participants of this workshop and especially Gün Semin for their useful feedback. Completion of this study benefited from a research grant from the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research to the first author.

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 233-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anouk Rogier ◽  
Vincent Yzerbyt
Keyword(s):  
Correspondence Bias ◽  
Social Attribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dispositional Attributions ◽  
Kurt Lewin ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Group Target ◽  
The University ◽  
Institute Workshop ◽  
Research Grant

Yzerbyt, Rogier and Fiske (1998) argued that perceivers confronted with a group high in entitativity (i.e., a group perceived as an entity, a tight-knit group) more readily call upon an underlying essence to explain people's behavior than perceivers confronted with an aggregate. Their study showed that group entitativity promoted dispositional attributions for the behavior of group members. Moreover, stereotypes emerged when people faced entitative groups. In this study, we replicate and extend these results by providing further evidence that the process of social attribution is responsible for the emergence of stereotypes. We use the attitude attribution paradigm ( Jones & Harris, 1967 ) and show that the correspondence bias is stronger for an entitative group target than for an aggregate. Besides, several dependent measures indicate that the target's group membership stands as a plausible causal factor to account for members' behavior, a process we call Social Attribution. Implications for current theories of stereotyping are discussed.

Actor-Observer Differences in Attribution: A Replication

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 583-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia H. Solano
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Dispositional Attributions

Nisbett, et al., (1973) presented evidence that male actors use more situational than dispositional explanations for their own behavior and use more dispositional than situational attributions for their best friend. The present study replicated this finding for male actors ( n = 41), and demonstrates that female actors ( n = 41) produce the same pattern. A close examination of this data and Nisbett, et al.'s shows, however, that a different interpretation of the data is possible for a familiar other. Dispositional attributions are made equally to the self and to the best friend. Situational attributions are made primarily to the self.

Compassion or Compliance: Alternative Dispositional Attributions for One's Helping Behavior

1979 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 405 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Daniel Batson ◽  
A. Christine Harris ◽  
Kevin D. McCaul ◽  
Michael Davis ◽  
Timothy Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Dispositional Attributions

Measurement and interpretation of situational and dispositional attributions

1981 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick D Miller ◽  
Eliot R Smith ◽  
James Uleman
Keyword(s):  
Dispositional Attributions

Do dispositional attributions regarding peer endorsers influence product evaluations?

2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Andre Sorum ◽  
Kjetil Marius Grape ◽  
David Silvera
Keyword(s):  
Product Evaluations ◽  
Dispositional Attributions

scholarly journals Dispositional and situational attribution of COVID-19 risk: A content analysis of response typology (Version: 1)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Dunning ◽  
Madeleine Pownall
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Attribution Theory ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Government Decision ◽  
Dispositional Attributions ◽  
Situational Attribution

Pre-Peer Review Version 1: In the current COVID-19 pandemic, there have been official health recommendations of social distancing, thorough handwashing, and self-isolation to prevent the spread of the virus. However, compliance with these recommendations has been mixed. We suggest that non-compliance may be justified by one’s (mis)perception of their own COVID-19 risk. In this paper, we explore the dispositional and situational attribution of self-reported COVID-19 risk, as per Heider’s Attribution Theory. We conducted a content and framework analysis of responses to an online survey, in which participants (N = 114) were asked to rate their likelihood of contracting the COVID-19 virus, before providing textual responses to explain their rating. Overall, we observed that generally, participants who rated their risk to be low made more dispositional attributions (i.e. attributing their risk to factors such as age and own personal hygiene) whereas higher risk participants made more situational attributions (i.e. attributing COVID-19 risk to government decision-making and other people’s cleanliness). A finalised framework of five response typologies including intrinsic, behavioural, balanced, contextual, and disengaged responses was systematically applied to the data. These results will be discussed in the context of attribution theory and risk perception, whilst providing future recommendations for research that tackles non-compliance of COVID-19 behaviours.

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