SOCY 273 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Fundamental Attribution Error, Pipeline Transport, Justin Trudeau
14 Mar 2016
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What talk does versus what talk expresses. Looking at what talk does, by looking at how talk accomplishes something (like explaining something). Attributional semantics: the ways in which our verbal descriptions can have casual implications. Idea that the type of verb used explains a person"s behaviour: sentence stems: person 1 verb person 2 because (complete with an attribution, findings: Person 1 (lied to, confessed to, helped, telephoned) Example: person 1 emailed person 2 because (stem sentence) The responsibility of behaviour lies for which type of verb and wording affects a person"s behaviour. External validity can be questioned in this research. Concerns the types of accounts people give for behaviour and the effectiveness of the accounts. Weiner et al. (1987) true and untrue reasons given for being late, not doing something expected of them, or not turning up. External and uncontrollable, and unintentional reasons vs internal, controllable, and intentional reasons.
