| Autor: |
Thane S. Pittman, Paul R. D'Agostino |
| Rok vydání: |
1989 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 25:465-480 |
| ISSN: |
0022-1031 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/0022-1031(89)90001-2 |
| Popis: |
This research was designed to investigate the cognitive processes underlying the finding that subjects appear to make more use of available information in forming attributions following a control-deprivation experience. We propose that control deprivation has this effect because it leads subjects to engage in careful and accurate processing of new material so that new situations will be rendered amenable to prediction and control. Experiment 1 demonstrated that control-deprived subjects were better able to recognize and identify the implications of previously presented sentence pairs. In Experiments 2 and 3, control-deprived subjects showed better recognition of both facts and inferences in a text-processing task. The pattern of results in these two studies clearly suggested that these effects were produced at the time of encoding rather than during retrieval. Experiment 3 also showed that this improved initial processing by control-deprived subjects could be reversed by raising self-esteem concerns that in turn led to self-protective effort withdrawal and poorer recognition performance. The implications of these findings for the proposed theoretical explanation, and the possibility that this theoretical view can organize and explain other research on when attributions will be made, are discussed. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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