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Explaining Real-Life Events: How Culture and Domain Shape Attributions
dc.contributor.authorLee, Fionaen_US
dc.contributor.authorHallahan, Marken_US
dc.contributor.authorHerzog, Thaddeusen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-14T14:18:02Z
dc.date.available2010-04-14T14:18:02Z
dc.date.issued1996en_US
dc.identifier.citationLee, Fiona; Hallahan, Mark; Herzog, Thaddeus (1996). "Explaining Real-Life Events: How Culture and Domain Shape Attributions." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 22(7): 732-741. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/69096>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0146-1672en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/69096
dc.description.abstractSeveral lines of experimental research have shown that attributional styles are affected by the attributor's culture, inferential goals, and level of cognitive processing. Can these findings be replicated in natural settings? This study compared the attributions made in two domains (sports articles and editorials) of newspapers published in two culturally distinct countries (Hong Kong and the United States). Consistent with the cross-cultural research, attributions were less dispositional in the East than in the West. This cultural difference was weaker in editorials than in sports articles. The authors argue that the higher level of complexity, accountability, and uncertainty in editorials increased the cognitive effort expended to make attributions, which, in turn, attenuated their extremity. Implications for the mixed model of social inference are discussed.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.titleExplaining Real-Life Events: How Culture and Domain Shape Attributionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherClemson Universityen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherBrown Universityen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69096/2/10.1177_0146167296227007.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0146167296227007en_US
dc.identifier.sourcePersonality and Social Psychology Bulletinen_US
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