Spontaneous Cognitions After an Exam: A Replication StudySummary: This study deals with the antecedents of spontaneous cognitions, namely the value and expectation of an event. Immediately after receiving the results of a mathematics exam, 91 ninth grade ...
Lester and Bean's (1992) Attribution of Causes to Suicide Scale gauges lay theories of suicide including intrapsychic problems, interpersonal conflicts, and societal forces as causes. Results obtained with its German form (n = 165 Austrian psychology ...
Abstract: Warranting theory articulates the process by which individuals connect online information to an offline target, guiding impression formation. The presence of online information alone may not innately guide impression formation ...
Two studies demonstrate that, in order to cope with social identity threat, strongly but not weakly group-identified individuals make attributions of relatively poor group performance to low group effort rather than ability. However, this only takes place ...
Contradictory evidence can be found in the literature about whether ingroup identification and perceived relative deprivation are positively or negatively related. Indeed, theoretical arguments can be made for both effects. It was proposed that the ...
While applicant reactions to selection (un)fairness have often been investigated, less is known about applicants’ attributions and reactions to specific performance feedback. This paper discusses two studies into the influence of fairness perceptions and ...