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Egotism and evaluation in self and other attributions for achievement related outcomes
Author(s) -
Boski Pawel
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420130307
Subject(s) - attribution , psychology , social psychology , perception , causality (physics) , generalization , cognition , need for achievement , locus of control , attribution bias , developmental psychology , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
A critical appraisal of the existing motivational versus cognitive controversies in the area of attributional research led to the formulation of a model which contains the dimension of Evaluation conceptualized independently from Locus of causality. The model was tested, with Nigerian undergraduate students serving as subjects, in an experiment on self versus other attributions for success and failure outcomes. The data revealed two major findings: (1) Positive evaluation, and not attributional asymmetry, is the pattern of self‐perception in the achievement‐related contexts; (2) The pattern of positive evaluation in other‐perception is self‐outcome mediated, it shows a high level of generalization in the co‐shared experience and an egotistic reversal if opposite outcomes occur.