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Attribution theories of lay epistemology?
Author(s) -
Effler Manfred
Publication year - 1984
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.2420140408
Subject(s) - attribution , psychology , social psychology , epistemology , relation (database) , causality (physics) , philosophy , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , database
Different attribution theories differ from each other less by their relation to different epistemic problems than by their taking account of different goals to which causal attributions can be functional. The process of causal attribution is influenced by the goals to which causal attributions are functional. A second criteria for differentiating attributions theories is that they proceed from different information bases.