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The Information Acquisition Process in Causal Attribution
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Mediating variables affecting sex differences in causal attribution
… questioning the existence of sex differences in causal attribution. From those who claim differences exist, three models have been proposed: the general externality model, the female self-derogation model, and the female low expectancy model. This study proposed that two variables, sex role and …
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Clinical Reasoning and Causal Attribution in Medical Diagnosis
… is limited empirical evidence in relation to causal attribution in medical diagnosis. The research on which this thesis is based explored and examined the social process of medical diagnosis and provides an explanation of the clinical reasoning and causal attribution used by physicians. The …
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Leisure Activity Status, Outcome, and Causal Attribution: A Hypothesized Interaction Effect
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THE INFLUENCE OF RACE, CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION, & IN-GROUP FAVORITISM ON RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REHABILITATION SERVICES
… were influenced by (a) the consumer's race, (b) causal attribution of disability, (c) participant's race, and (d) the interaction of the counselor's race and consumer's race. A 2 x 2 x 3 Factorial design was utilized and results from this study revealed that recommendations for rehabilitation …
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The Effects of Causal Attribution, Religiosity and Shared Beliefs On the Management of Type 2 Diabetes
… variables in this analysis included the couples' causal attribution, religiosity, and congruence regarding the aforementioned. The major theories framing this study were the Family Systems theory and the family stress models. Support was found also in the middle ranged Family Resilience Framework. …
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Assessing Readiness to Change and Identifying Risk Factors Leading to an Alcohol-Related Injury
… that older patients, patients with increased causal attribution, and patients reporting increased recent alcohol-related problems were significantly more likely to be ready to make a change in their alcohol use. Also of interest in the study were factors associated with acute intoxication and …
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Juror Bias in a Mock Case Involving a Defendant With Kleptomania
… illness (Higgins, Heath, & Grannemann, 2007) and causal attributions regarding the mental illness (Rendell, Huss, & Jensen, 2010), even if jurors have not explicitly been told to consider this information. Although individuals with kleptomania often experience legal troubles (Grant, Odlaug, Davis, …
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Formative assessment: the effect on academic achievement and attitudes toward science
… Likert-type surveys, an attitude survey and a causal attribution survey. Each survey was given at the start of the experiment and again at the end of the experiment. Summative test scores were also collected over the course of the investigation. The mean and standard deviation for summative …
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Attribution to Deviant and Nondeviant Social Roles
A questionnaire was used to study causal attribution to social roles as influenced by perceived deviance of the role, instructions to identify with the role, and participant gender. The perceived deviance or nondeviance of the roles was determined by a pilot study. The roles were varied randomly …
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How managers and training professionals attribute causality for results: Implications for training evaluation
… in how managers and training professionals made causal judgements and to compare the processes they used against the processes described in causal attribution theory. Designed to collect information from within the business context, the interview questions were focused on actual events which the …
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Between rejection and coping: the consolidation of turkish identity in Germany
… of rejection (e.g., appraisal of threat & causal attribution) rather than the objective rejection experiences. Finally, in the third study, we reconceptualised the discrimination (i.e., Justifiable, Perceived, Structural and Apprehensive) based on a combination of the appraisal of threat …
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The effects of teacher practices on classroom management
… to examine the relationship between a teacher’s causal attribution of student behavior and their decision to write a student a discipline referral. This study included a review of data collected from Teachers’ Attribution for Students’ Behavior Measure (TASBM) from a purposeful sample of teachers …
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Two Sources of Influence Related to the Use of the Discounting Principle: Specific Versus General Causal Attributions and the Believability of Attributions
Numerous studies on causal attribution have supported the discounting principle which has been stated by Kelley (1973) as follows: "The role of a given cause in producing a given effect is discounted if other causes are also present" (p. 113). Kun, Murray, and Sredl (1980) have noted that …
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Attributional Styles and Willingness to Seek Help Across Turkish and *American Cultures: Replication of Brickman's Attribution Model
"This study explored how attributional styles and willingness to seek psychological help varied across Turkish and American college students. It was found that the two factor structure of Brickman's Attribution Model replicated in Turkish culture, thereby providing support for the structural …
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