Summary: This paper presents a motivational program that helps parents to teach their children realistic goal-setting, favorable causal attributions, and individual reference norms for self-evaluation. Thirty-two parents of third graders participated in a ...
When do causal attribution and counterfactual thinking facilitate one another, and when do the two responses overlap? Undergraduates (N = 78) both explained and undid, in each of two orders, events that were described either with their potential causes or ...
Causal Attributions about Bodily Sensations in Somatoform DisordersSummary. It is a common assumption that somatoform disorders are associated with somatic causal attributions; and that these subjective attributions contribute to the maintenance of the ...
Causal attributions of patients with inflammatory bowel diseasesAbstract.Background: Knowledge of the causal attributions of patients is particularly important in diseases, such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), with an unclear etiology, a chronic ...
Hindsight bias describes characteristic changes in the perceptions of events or facts once their outcomes are known. This article focuses on one important facet of this, named creeping determinism, denoting enhanced hindsight perceptions of the ...
Abstract. This study extends the literature on people’s understanding of happiness by asking whether positive and negative events could affect the causal attributions of what makes others happy. Using a factorial ...