Causal Attribution: From Cognitive Processes to Collective Beliefs
by Miles Hewstone
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Attribution theory deals with how people explain social behavior -their causal attributions or common-sense explanations. CausalAttribution provides a major assessment of attribution theoryin social psychology during the last forty years. It reviews indetail the variety of theoretical perspectives and establishedphenomena in attribution theory and provides a unique integration. A brief introduction to the classic attribution theories isfollowed by a review of some of the fundamental show more questions. The coreof the book is made up of four central chapters, one on each ofDoise's levels of explanation. Intra-personal attribution hasstudied the logic, cognitive processes and knowledge structuresunderlying causal attributions. Interpersonal attribution centerson attribution in social interaction and in close relationships,especially marriage. Intergroup attribution highlights theconsequences of social categorization: attributions at this leveloften favor the ingroup and sustain ingroup conflict. Societalattributions link attributions to wider social beliefs, such asconspiracy theories, and refer to phenomena such as poverty,unemployment and riots. This volume emphasizes the breadth and depth of attributionresearch, and argues persuasively that an attributional approachhas a promising future, as well as a distinguished past, in socialpsychology. show lessTags
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