Older adults have been shown to make more internal causal attributions for negative outcomes.
These explanations are replete with meaning and causal attribution.
Many researchers have interpreted just world beliefs as an example of causal attribution.
The authors explore the idea that causal attributions made by survivors about their experience are an important mediating variable.
Accounts written by the sixteen pupils were studied for causal attributions, without any further intrusion from the researchers.
The how and what of why: Some determinants and consequences of causal attribution.
Correspondence inferences and causal attributions also differ in automaticity.
It has also been suggested that correspondence inferences and causal attributions are elicited by different mechanisms.
The process of assimilation can lead to causal attributions of personality as this inconsistent information is integrated into the whole.
The causal attribution can be motivated by wanting to feel more positive about the outcome and possibly themselves.