The results of three studies clearly indicate that ongoing behavior is organized into perceptual units, and that these units may be validly identified by the Newtson (1973) unit marking procedure. (Author)

When a person acts bizarre, out of role, or in other extreme ways, the perceiver often attributes to that person an extreme disposition, and the attribution is made with confidence. Two experiments were conducted to investigate a modification of this analysis of attribution (Jones & Davis, 1965). (Author/RK)

This descriptive study of the attribution of value in verbalizations of participants in eight group therapy sessions consisted of a series of controversies over whether target persons or people outside the group, whom target persons complained about, should be disparaged. Target persons generally described themselves as not deserving…

This study compared psychiatric rehabilitees' causal attributions for a vocational outcome with those of a college sample. Causality included personal force factors (ability on the job and effort on the job) and environmental factors (luck). It was found that psychiatric rehabilitees assigned causality in a similar manner to college students.…

Investigated older (N=98) and younger (N=116) persons' responsibility attributions for the cause and solution to a memory problem. Results indicate that both the age of the help-seeker and the problem type affected attributions. An older adult was perceived as less responsible than a younger adult for a memory problem. (RJM)

Research has shown that attributional styles are affected by the attributor's culture, inferential goals, and level of cognitive processing. This study compares the attributions made in sports articles and editorials of newspapers published in Hong Kong and the United States. Implications for the mixed model of social inference are discussed. (LSR)

Studied the construct validity of the dimensions of the Multidimensional-Multiattributional Causality Scale based on B. Wiener's attribution model (1979) in achievement and affiliation goal domains. Results for 172 New Zealand college students provide evidence that the measure is better used as a goal specific measure than a general measure. (SLD)

Examined whether established associations between perceptions of parental differential treatment (PDT) and sibling relationship quality are moderated by children's perceptions and attributions of parental behavior in 61 children (11-13 years) and their siblings. Children did not perceive PDT in two-thirds of instances reported; 75% who…

Psychological buffers were evaluated for their relative contributions to adolescents' perceived risk for suicide. Orthodoxy--commitment to core beliefs--emerged as the single strongest correlate after controlling for the effects of other buffers. The effect of depression on perceived suicide risk was moderated by the adolescent's degree of…

The changing world offers educators a new set of challenges for helping students assume a role as citizens of the world. A proposed strategy for incorporating an intercultural dimension into courses in business communication integrates aspects of experimental, behavioral, and informational learning. (JOW)

Assessed degree of placing blame on self and on partner for violence in women (N=70) who had experiences marital violence. Found characterological self-blame was shown to be most highly associated with repeated physical or sexual abuse in childhood, lack of social support, and high rate of depression once out of the relationship. (Author/ABL)

Investigates the extent to which actor-partner points of view influence the outcomes of conflict messages on perceptions of communicator appropriateness, effectiveness, and global competence. Finds support for the attributional approach used to explain actor-observer judgments of actors' communicative competence. (MG)

A study comparing mean locus of control and attribution scores of 137 elementary students found that underachieving gifted students' mean attribution scores were higher than other groups for ability in success situations. Underachieving gifted and non-gifted students' mean scores were higher than achieving gifted peers for externality and luck in…

Data from 44 boys and 39 girls of 27-63 months of age indicated that children's gender schematization and other cognitive gender schema factors were significantly associated with accuracy in attributing gender-role stereotypes to males and females. (RH)