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Smokers' and non‐smokers' attributions about smoking: A case of actor‐observer differences?
Author(s) -
Eiser J. Richard,
Sutton Stephen R.,
Wober Mallory
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1978.tb00263.x
Subject(s) - attribution , psychology , pleasure , cigarette smoking , relevance (law) , smoking cessation , social psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , pathology , neuroscience , political science , law
In a postal survey to compare smokers' and non‐smokers' attributions about cigarette smoking, those who had never smoked saw smokers on average as deriving less pleasure from cigarettes and as less frightened by the health risks than smokers saw themselves. Smokers attributed less importance than never‐smokers to advertisements and to seeing actors smoking on television as factors influencing people to start smoking. Younger subjects attributed more importance than did older subjects to the influence of having friends or relatives who smoked in this regard. The relevance of these data to attribution processes was discussed.