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Journal of Research in Personality | 1991

Explanations of extreme and moderate events

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

A paradoxical prediction from locus of control

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

Social representations, social attribution and social identity: The intergroup images of ‘public’ and ‘comprehensive’ schoolboys

Miles Hewstone; Jos Jaspars; Mansur Lalljee


Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1987

COVARIATION AND CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION - A LOGICAL MODEL OF THE INTUITIVE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE

Miles Hewstone; Jos Jaspars


Cultures in Contact#R##N#Studies in Cross-Cultural Interaction | 1982

6 – Cross-cultural interaction, social attribution and inter-group relations1*

Jos Jaspars; Miles Hewstone


European Journal of Social Psychology | 1982

Explanations for racial discrimination: The effect of group discussion on intergroup attributions

Miles Hewstone; Jos Jaspars


Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989

Conjunctive explanations of success and failure: The effect of different types of causes.

John McClure; Mansur Lalljee; Jos Jaspars; Robert P. Abelson


British Journal of Social Psychology | 1987

The explanation of occurrences and non-occurrences: A test of the inductive logic model of causal attribution

Denis J. Hilton; Jos Jaspars


British Journal of Social Psychology | 1984

Explanations and information search: Inductive and hypothesis-testing approaches to arriving at an explanation

Mansur Lalljee; Roger Lamb; Adrian Furnham; Jos Jaspars


British Journal of Social Psychology | 1983

A re‐examination of the roles of consensus, consistency and distinctiveness: Kelley's cube revisited*

Miles Hewstone; Jos Jaspars

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John McClure

Victoria University of Wellington

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Victoria University of Wellington

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