PSY 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tunxis Community College, Dispositional Attribution, Specific Performance
23 Nov 2020
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Study participants rated someone as much more selfish and less helpful in the ulterior motive condition than in the condition where told that she helped voluntarily or that she did it as part of a job. Shows that the salience of the person influences our attributions; usually others are more salient to us than ourselves. Law connections: the impact of salience on perceived guilt. Simply changing the perspective of video influences jurors verdicts in a study (simulated quiz show). Questioners gave themselves and their partners about the same ratings of intelligence, whereas both observers and contestants rated the questioners as more intelligent than the contestants. Lack of cognitive capacity two-stage model of attribution: a model in which ppl first automatically interpret a person"s behavior as. Caused by dispositional factors, and then later adjust this interpretation by taking into account situational factors that may have contributed to this behavior.
