The actor and the observer: Divergent perceptions of the causes of behavior. The actor and the
observer: Divergent perceptions of the causes of behavior. Citation Jones, EE, & Nisbett, RE …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the naive explanation of human actions, theory
of correspondent inferences, personal involvement and correspondence, and the recent …

Jones and Nisbett hypothesize that actors attribute their actions to situational requirements
whereas observers attribute the same actions to personal dispositions. This hypothesis is …

The article discusses the effect of expected and observed outcome of an action on the
differential casual attributions of actors and observers. Researchers EE Jones and RE …

Examines the hypothesis of EE Jones and RE Nisbett (1971) that individuals generally
attribute the actions of others to stable trait dispositions but see their own behavior as …

Many studies of causal attribution have used measures of internal (or personal) and external
(or situational) attribution. Two studies are reported which show that this distinction is …

Investigated H. Kelley's (see record 1968-13540-001) attribution theory. 87 male
undergraduates filled out a questionnaire that reported 16 different responses ostensibly …

The last decade has seen a great deal of research on the perception of causation and the
consequences of such perception. Conducted primarily within social psychology, the focus …

Publisher Summary Attribution theory is concerned with the attempts of ordinary people to
understand the causes and implications of the events they witness. It deals with the “naive …

The philosophical distinction between reasons and causes has recently been invoked in
psychological discussions of attributional processes. The present authors discuss this …