Causal Attribution

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Attribution theory deals with how people explain social behaviour - their causal attributions or common-sense explanations. Causal Attribution provides a major assessment of attribution theory in social psychology during the last 40 years. i A brief introduction to the classic attribution theories is followed by a review of somé of the fundamental questions. The core of the book is made up of four central chapters, one on each of Doise's levels of explanation: intra-personal attribution, interpersonal attribution, int er group attribution and societal attribution. This volume emphasizes the breadth and depth of attribution research; it confronts critics with a view of the field that is more social, and less artificial, than they have claimed; and it argues persuasively that an attributional approach has a promising future, as well as a distinguished past, in social psychology. A graduate of the University of Bristol, Miles Hewstone obtained his doctorate from the University of... Tovább

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Attribution theory deals with how people explain social behaviour - their causal attributions or common-sense explanations. Causal Attribution provides a major assessment of attribution theory in social psychology during the last 40 years. i A brief introduction to the classic attribution theories is followed by a review of somé of the fundamental questions. The core of the book is made up of four central chapters, one on each of Doise's levels of explanation: intra-personal attribution, interpersonal attribution, int er group attribution and societal attribution. This volume emphasizes the breadth and depth of attribution research; it confronts critics with a view of the field that is more social, and less artificial, than they have claimed; and it argues persuasively that an attributional approach has a promising future, as well as a distinguished past, in social psychology. A graduate of the University of Bristol, Miles Hewstone obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He carried out post-doctoral research in Paris and Tübingen and was awarded the British Psychological Society's Spearman Medál in 1987. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, and is currently Reader in Social Psychology at the University of Bristol. 4 Causal Attribution presents somé of the most thoughtful and challenging analysis of theory and research in coniemporary attribution theory that can be found anywhere in the literature. The book is timely, füled with discussions of key research issues, and amazingly up-to-date in references provided. Alsó, the book is well-written and could readily be used in undergraduate as well as graduate studies dealing with attribution and social perception.' Professor John H. Harvey, University of Iowa This book offers one of the most comprehensive and sophisticated analyses of the literature on causal attribution. . . . It will appeal to novice and expert alike, and must be read by anyone interested in attribution theory and research.- Professor Frank D. Fincham, University of Illinois Of related interest from Basil Blackwell Introduction to Social Psychology A European Perspective Edited by Miles Hewstone, Wolfgang Stroebe, Jean-Paul Codol and Geojfrey M. Stephenson Vissza