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Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gibbons, Barbara N. – 1979
The effects of labels, "mentally retarded" and "institutionalized" on the evaluations and causal attributions of nonretarded persons, and on the social distance preferences of EMR persons, were assessed. In addition, each group was asked to predict the likelihood of a labeled (mentally retarded) or a nonlabeled target person achieving success at a…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Expectation
