Explaining Real-Life Events: How Culture and Domain Shape Attributions
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Memory attributions for choices: How beliefs shape our memories
When remembering past choices, people tend to attribute positive features to chosen options and negative features to rejected options. The present experiments reveal the important role beliefs play in memory reconstruction of choices. In Experiment 1, participants who misremembered which option they chose favored their believed choice in their memory attributions more than their actual choice. ...
متن کاملMemory attributions for choices : How beliefs shape our memories q
When remembering past choices, people tend to attribute positive features to chosen options and negative features to rejected options. The present experiments reveal the important role beliefs play in memory reconstruction of choices. In Experiment 1, participants who misremembered which option they chose favored their believed choice in their memory attributions more than their actual choice. ...
متن کاملATTITUDES AND SOCIAL COGNITION Culture and Cause: American and Chinese Attributions for Social and Physical Events
The authors argue that attribution patterns reflect implicit theories acquired from induction and socialization and hence differentially distributed across human cultures. In particular, the authors tested the hypothesis that dispositionalism in attribution for behavior reflects a theory of social behavior more widespread in individualist than collectivist cultures. Study 1 demonstrated that ca...
متن کاملCulture as Cognition and Behavior: How Categorization Can Shape Interaction (and How Leaders Can Shape Categorization?)
For decades, economists paid minuscule attention to culture, but this is changing rapidly. One view of culture emphasizes “values that ethnic, religious, and social groups transmit fairly unchanged from generation to generation” (Guiso et al., 2006: 23), and one way to model such values is to enrich the arguments of an actor’s utility function to include actions by others in the actor’s social ...
متن کاملDefining and explaining culture
We argue that there is a continuum of cases without any demarcation between more individual and more cultural information, and that therefore “culture” should be viewed as a property that human mental representations and practices exhibit to a varying degree rather than as a type or a subclass of these representations and practices (or of “information”). We discuss the relative role of preserva...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0146-1672,1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/0146167296227007