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Peer reviewedBoxer, Paul; Tisak, Marie S. – Journal of Adolescence, 2003
Examined causal attributions about aggression made by early, middle, and late adolescents. Analyses of the attribution questionnaire supported the hypothesized model of causal beliefs. The strength of endorsements of internally oriented causal factors increased with age. Findings are discussed with regard to socio-cognitive development and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Attribution Theory, Causal Models
Peer reviewedHirschfeld, Lawrence A. – Cognition, 1997
Responds to John J. Kim's critique of his studies of preschoolers' understanding of race. Maintains that his and others' investigations demonstrate that preschoolers differentiate the pattern of causal reasoning governing transmission and maintenance of racial characteristics from that governing transmission and maintenance of perceptually similar…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Causal Models, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedYuill, Nicola; Pearson, Anna – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Two studies investigated 4- to 7-year-olds' understanding that trait can be causal mechanisms based on desires or mere summaries of behavioral regularities. Results suggested that children change from viewing traits as behavioral regularities to understanding them as internal mediators and that advances in understanding desire underlie this…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Beliefs, Causal Models
