The effects of attributions for success on the alleviation of mood and performance deficits of clinically depressed inpatients were investigated. Depressed patients were randomly assigned to either an acutely depressed group or an improved depressed group that was exposed to a learned helplessness induction procedure. All subjects received 80% positive feedback on a task allegedly measuring soc...

Authorship attribution is the task of deciding who wrote a particular document. Several attribution approaches have been proposed in recent research, but none of these approaches is particularly satisfactory; some of them are ad hoc and most have defects in terms of scalability, effectiveness, and efficiency. In this paper, we propose a principled approach motivated from information theory to i...

The aim of this paper is to provide a logical analysis of the concept of responsibility attribution; that is, how agents ascribe responsibility about the consequences of actions, either to themselves or to other agents. The paper is divided in two parts. The first part investigates the importance of the concept of responsibility attribution for emotion theory in general and, in particular, for ...

Perrewe and Zellars (this issue) present a highly ambitious and interesting paper. They argue forcefully that Lazarus' stress theory can be extended by incorporating causal attribution theory and, thereby, they suggest to develop a more adequate theory of emotion and coping in the workplace. Having been involved in making emotion research useful to work psychology (Pekrun and Frese, 1992; Temm...

Detection and attribution of a human influence on climate, or some aspect of climate such as hurricane frequency, involves detection of an unusual change (outside the range of internal climate variability) in the data, and then attribution of the change to a specific anthropogenic influence, such as increasing greenhouse gas concentrations or anthropogenic aerosols. Attribution as used here mea...

Objectives: This paper urges revision of the way attributions are conceptualised, investigated, and applied in sport psychology. There has been a recent decline in attribution research in sport psychology, despite the generally accepted relevance of attributions in applied settings. In seeking closer links between attribution theory, research, and practice, we argue that there is a mismatch bet...

This paper analyzes the origins and specificity of the recent research trend on the development in children of a Theory of mind which has undergone an impressive expansion over past the fifteen years. A comparison with Piagets approach is proposed regarding the experimental data available on the coordination of perspectives as well as the epistemological foundations. The issues of the naturaliz...