PSYC212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Controllability, Personalism
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The more distinctive the consequences of a choice, the more confidently you can infer intention and disposition. E. g. if can find one distinctive consequence of a chosen action then can infer that the actor did that action because he was motivated by that consequence. People like to make a correspondent inference because a dispositional cause is a stable one thus peoples(cid:859) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour is re(cid:374)dered predi(cid:272)ta(cid:271)le a(cid:374)d (cid:449)e feel (cid:373)ore i(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol. Hedonic relevance: refers to behaviour that has important direct consequences for self. Low consensus attribute behaviour more to the situation attribute to target (i. e. situation) actor is the source of the event. Where there is no information from past experiences with the target and actor to draw from then we tend to fall back on casual schemas. In particular, content-free schemas and pre-existing beliefs that can be applied to ambiguous situations.
