Happy Accidents: Defensive Attribution or Rational Calculus?

Autor:	A. John Arrowood, Jonathan C. Younger, Brian M. Earn
Rok vydání:	1978
Předmět:	Reinterpretation Accident (fallacy) Social Psychology Argument 05 social sciences Defensive attribution hypothesis Relevance (law) 050109 social psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Social psychology Outcome (game theory) 050105 experimental psychology
Zdroj:	Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 4:52-55
ISSN:	1552-7433 0146-1672
DOI:	10.1177/014616727800400110
Popis:	In a recent study by Shaw and Skolnick (1971), subjects rated a target person as less responsible for accidents having a desirable outcome than for those whose outcomes were more unpleasant. They propose that such findings reflect defensive attribution. The present study questions the empirical basis for their argument. Specifically, it is suggested that differences in perceived responsibility may better reflect differences in the subjective probabilities assigned their accident scenarios than differential ego-defensiveness. The results lend strong support to a reinterpretation of Shaw and Skolnick's findings in nonmotivational terms. The relevance of these effects to the defensive attribution hypothesis is discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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