Telling what they want to know: participants tailor causal attributions to researchers' interests
dc.contributor.author | Norenzayan, Ara | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Schwarz, Norbert | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-19T13:40:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-19T13:40:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1999-12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Norenzayan, Ara; Schwarz, Norbert (1999)."Telling what they want to know: participants tailor causal attributions to researchers' interests." European Journal of Social Psychology 29(8): 1011-1020. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/34565> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0046-2772 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1099-0992 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/34565 | |
dc.description.abstract | Based on a conversational analysis of experimental procedures and consistent with the principle of relevance, we predicted that participants' verbal responses will be influenced by their tacit inferences about the researcher's epistemic goals, derived from their knowledge of the researcher's academic affiliation. We tested this prediction in a core area of social-personality and cultural psychology, causal attribution. University students provided causal attributions about mass murder cases, while the questionnaire identified the researcher either as a social scientist or a personality psychologist. The results indicated that attributions were overall more situational than dispositional, and as predicted, this main effect was qualified by an interaction between conversational cue and type of attribution. Thus, participants gave relatively more situational explanations when the letterhead of the questionnaire identified the researcher as a social scientist compared to when the researcher was identified as a personality psychologist. The reverse pattern emerged for dispositional attributions. Methodological and conceptual implications are discussed. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychology | en_US |
dc.title | Telling what they want to know: participants tailor causal attributions to researchers' interests | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, USA ; Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, 525 E. University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan, USA | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/34565/1/974_ftp.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0992(199912)29:8<1011::AID-EJSP974>3.0.CO;2-A | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | European Journal of Social Psychology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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