PSYC 2310 Lecture 4: (4) Thursday January 19
3 Feb 2017
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This is the heart of attribution, theories are found in the textbook. Attribution is the search of the answer to the question of why. 1974 (feb) university student (female) in her apartment with boyfriend for dinner. Doorbell rings, boyfriend opens, machine gun/armed people come in beat guy and blindfold both, girl into car. They wanted her father (a millionaire) to donate money to various communities, negotiation occurs. In the end she decided to stay with the army and fight for the rights of oppressed people. There is no doubt about the robbery, gun, her action, etc. Aka an attributional equation or the lewinian equation: Quote of the day: (cid:498)no man really knows about human beings. The best he can do is suppose that they are like himself(cid:499) A classical study on the discounting principle was conducted by jones and. Procedure: participants were shown essays that either supported or opposed.
