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The dimensionality of attributions of causality and responsibility for an accident
Author(s) -
Nogami Glenda Y.,
Streufert Siegfried
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.2420130409
Subject(s) - attribution , causality (physics) , psychology , cued speech , accident (philosophy) , social psychology , moral responsibility , curse of dimensionality , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , epistemology , artificial intelligence , computer science , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
Effects of the dimensionality of responsibility and causality attributions were investigated. An accident was described. Subjects cued to respond with causality attributions increased their attributions with event severity. Subjects cued to respond with moral responsibility attributions decreased attributional levels with increasing severity. Assignments of guilt varied specifically with the cued attributional concept.