Jos Jaspars
University of Oxford
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Journal of Research in Personality | 1991
John McClure; Mansur Lalljee; Jos Jaspars
Abstract Previous research has not fully resolved the question of how the extremity of an event affects the number of causes included in the explanation. Three studies focused on the issue of whether actions of varying extremity are explained by a conjunction or by single causes corresponding in magnitude to the effect. The studies examined explanations of actions and achievement outcomes of imaginary and actual persons. Unstructured and structured questionnaires were used as measures. The first two studies showed that some extreme actions and achievements were explained by a single cause that corresponds to the effect, whereas others were explained by a conjunction of (less extreme) causes. Moderate events were explained by single causes, alternative causes linked by disjunctions (A or B), or by opposed causes linked by adversative conjunctions (A but B). The third study showed that the preference for single causes for certain achievements applies equally to real and fictional persons. These findings suggest that people respond to some extreme effects by increasing the magnitude of a single cause rather than increasing the number of causes.
Personality and Individual Differences | 1985
Roger Lamb; Mansur Lalljee; Jos Jaspars
Abstract Individual differences in attribution have been little researched. Beliefs about locus of control have been taken to be stable and important differences between people. They may provide some of the background assumptions on which people base their explanations of actions, especially insofar as these explanations imply that the cause of an action was within the agent or his environment, and that the action was or was not under the agents control. Respondents were therefore asked to fill in Rotter and Levenson locus of control questionnaires and to provide explanations or ask questions about several actions. It was hypothesized that internals would be inclined to go for explanations which were personal and implied high control, while externals would not. However, what emerged was the paradoxical finding that internals provided explanations which implied that the causes of the actions lay outside the agent, while externals provided ones which implied that the causes lay within. This result is discussed in terms of the difference between actions and outcomes, and the possibility that an important difference between people may be in the rigidity and simplicity of their beliefs about causality.
European Journal of Social Psychology | 1982
Miles Hewstone; Jos Jaspars; Mansur Lalljee
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1987
Miles Hewstone; Jos Jaspars
Cultures in Contact#R##N#Studies in Cross-Cultural Interaction | 1982
Jos Jaspars; Miles Hewstone
European Journal of Social Psychology | 1982
Miles Hewstone; Jos Jaspars
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989
John McClure; Mansur Lalljee; Jos Jaspars; Robert P. Abelson
British Journal of Social Psychology | 1987
Denis J. Hilton; Jos Jaspars
British Journal of Social Psychology | 1984
Mansur Lalljee; Roger Lamb; Adrian Furnham; Jos Jaspars
British Journal of Social Psychology | 1983
Miles Hewstone; Jos Jaspars