Homework Help: psychology

Posted by vedrana on Friday, March 5, 2010 at 3:55pm.

According to attribution theory,Americans are likely to blame others' first when something goes wrong,but will point to their own when someting goes right

a) dispositional attributes;self-serving bias
b) self-serving bias;dispositional attributes
c) dispositional attributes;situatinal attributes
d) situational attributes ;situational atributes
IS C CORRECT ANSWER?THANK YOU:)))

psychology - bobpursley, Friday, March 5, 2010 at 4:15pm
I have a relative who blames Obama for everything wrong in the world, and for everything right, he takes credit.

The basic rationale is that Obama is a dirty, low-down, lying, incompetent jerk, and he himself, has superior intelligence, vision, and judgement.

I think a) is the better answer.
psychology - PsyDAG, Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 10:08am
Possibly these articles might help.

http://www.members.cox.net/dagershaw/lol/Attribution.html
http://www.members.cox.net/dagershaw/lol/AttributionError.html
http://www.members.cox.net/dagershaw/lol/ExplainBehavior.html

I hope this helps a little more.

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