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Causal attribution and counterfactual thinking - when does performing one facilitate performance of the other
Swiss Journal of Psychology, Dec 1, 2003
When do causal attribution and counterfactual thinking facilitate one another, and when do the tw... more When do causal attribution and counterfactual thinking facilitate one another, and when do the two responses overlap? Undergraduates (N = 78) both explained and undid, in each of two orders, events that were described either with their potential causes or not. The time to perform either response was recorded. Overall, mutation response times were shorter when performed after an attribution was made than before, while attribution response times did not vary as a consequence of sequence. Depending on whether the causes of the target events were described in the scenario or not, respondents undid the actor and assigned causality to another antecedent, or pointed to the actor for both responses. These findings suggest that counterfactual mutation is most likely to be facilitated by attribution, and that mutation and attribution responses are most likely to overlap when no information about potential causes of the event is provided.
Distance culturelle et préjugés à l’égard des immigrés en France : le rôle des modèles d’intégration
Revue Internationale De Psychologie Sociale-international Review of Social Psychology, 2015
L’objectif de cette recherche est de montrer que le lien entre la distance culturelle percue et l... more L’objectif de cette recherche est de montrer que le lien entre la distance culturelle percue et les prejuges envers les immigres depend de l’adhesion aux differents modeles d’integration. Nous presentons deux etudes : une enquete et une etude experimentale. Dans l’enquete, des Francais natifs remplissaient des mesures de perception de distance culturelle entre les differents groupes d’immigres et le groupe majoritaire francais, d’adhesion a differents modeles d’integration (assimilation, multiculturalisme) et de prejuges a l’egard des immigres. Les resultats montrent un lien positif entre la perception de la distance culturelle et les prejuges a l’egard des groupes. Ce lien est modere par l’adhesion aux differents modeles d’integration : chez les Francais qui adherent davantage a l’assimilation qu’au multiculturalisme, la perception d’une grande distance culturelle est associee a un niveau eleve de prejuges a l’egard des immigres. Ce lien est plus faible chez les Francais qui adhere...
On Predicting Actor’s Regret from Causal Attribution, Counterfactual Thinking and Type of Behavior Decision
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2016
L'explication naïve de l'action du point de vue de l'acteur et de l'observateur
Exceptionality effect is the widely cited phenomenon that people experience stronger regret regar... more Exceptionality effect is the widely cited phenomenon that people experience stronger regret regarding negative outcomes that are a result of more exceptional circumstances, compared to routine. We hypothesize that the exceptionality-routine attribution asymmetry would extend to attributions of freedom and responsibility. In Experiment 1 (N = 338), we found that people attributed more free will to exceptional behavior compared to routine, when the exception was due to self-choice rather than due to external circumstances. In Experiment 2 (N = 561), we replicated and generalized the effect of exceptionality on attributions of free will to other scenarios, with support for the classic exceptionality effect regarding regret and an extension to moral responsibility. In Experiment 3 (N = 128), we replicated these effects in a within-subject design. When using a classic experimental philosophy paradigm contrasting a deterministic and an indeterministic universe, we found that the results w...
Chapitre 4 - Le choix du mode de réduction
La dissonance cognitive, 2013
Les cahiers internationaux de psychologie sociale, 2011
Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Presses universitaires de Liège. © Presses universitair... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Presses universitaires de Liège. © Presses universitaires de Liège. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit.
Review of General Psychology, 2007
Fritz Heider's theory of social perception is reviewed, and the close connection between attr... more Fritz Heider's theory of social perception is reviewed, and the close connection between attribution, balance, and unit relationship are examined, primarily through Heider's own writings. Attribution and balance have historically been considered separate theories, but the authors show how these two ideas, in conjunction with the idea of unit formation, create a broad-ranging and integrated theory of social perception. Attributions were seen by Heider as a particular kind of unit relationship, and people make attributions that preserve an affectively consistent view of others. The authors then show how this integrated understanding of Heider's ideas generates new predictions and informs a wide range of clinical, personality, and social psychological phenomena, as a reminder of the modern power of Heider's theory.
When Does Action Elicit More Regret Than Inaction and Is Counterfactual Mutation the Mediator of This Effect?
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1997
... 3. CT Burris and NR Branscombe, Racism, counterfactual thinking, and judgment severity. Journ... more ... 3. CT Burris and NR Branscombe, Racism, counterfactual thinking, and judgment severity. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 23 (1993), pp. 980995. ... 5. CG Davis, DR Lehman, CB Wortman, RC Silver and SC Thompson, The undoing of traumatic life events. ...
Mental Simulation and Causal Attribution: When Simulating an Event Does Not Affect Fault Assignment
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1995
Wells and Gavanski′s (1989) hypothesis that the feature of an event that is most mutable is also ... more Wells and Gavanski′s (1989) hypothesis that the feature of an event that is most mutable is also perceived as causal was reexamined on the assumption that this is not the general case. Using Copi′s (1982) analysis of the different processes involved in eliminating or producing an outcome, we propose that people focus on different aspects of events when they simulate
Counterfactual Thinking, Blame Assignment, and Well-Being in Rape Victims
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2003
... Severe and especially uncontrollable traumatic events shat-ter victims' basic as... more ... Severe and especially uncontrollable traumatic events shat-ter victims' basic assumptions about the ... on the depression inventory, self-esteem scale, and perceived control in life measure all ... Both of the counterfactual indicators loaded significantly on the counter-factual thinking ...
Recommending Action More Than Inaction When Either Decision Fails: Which Norm Underlies This Process?
The American Journal of Psychology, 2012
Norm theorists' assumption that action is abnorma... more Norm theorists' assumption that action is abnormal compared with inaction was revisited. Two experiments tested the opposite prediction, that action is construed as the descriptive norm and therefore is less mutable than inaction and should be more recommended for undoing a negative outcome. Participants both undid a person's negative outcome by recommending an alternative decision and rated the intensity of regret he or she was likely to feel. The focal outcomes were categorized as resulting from a conjunction of 4 decisions, including action, inaction, or a combination of both. An abnormality index was constructed based on the distance between the decision implemented and the decision recommended. Overall, action was most frequently recommended as an alternative to most of the other decisions. Mixed action-inaction instead of inaction was highly recommended as an alternative when action failed (Experiment 1), but when explicitly presented as the descriptive norm, inaction was highly recommended as an alternative to action (Experiment 2). The numeric distance between action and the recommended alternatives was shorter than that between inaction and its alternatives, suggesting that the former is normal. However, the actor was expected to experience regret of equal intensity regardless of how the outcome originated. The recommendation responses support the descriptive norm perspective.
Self and group protection concerns influence attributions but they are not determinants of counterfactual mutation focus
British Journal of Social Psychology, 1997
Causal attribution and counterfactual thinking - when does performing one facilitate performance of the other
Swiss Journal of Psychology, Dec 1, 2003
When do causal attribution and counterfactual thinking facilitate one another, and when do the tw... more When do causal attribution and counterfactual thinking facilitate one another, and when do the two responses overlap? Undergraduates (N = 78) both explained and undid, in each of two orders, events that were described either with their potential causes or not. The time to perform either response was recorded. Overall, mutation response times were shorter when performed after an attribution was made than before, while attribution response times did not vary as a consequence of sequence. Depending on whether the causes of the target events were described in the scenario or not, respondents undid the actor and assigned causality to another antecedent, or pointed to the actor for both responses. These findings suggest that counterfactual mutation is most likely to be facilitated by attribution, and that mutation and attribution responses are most likely to overlap when no information about potential causes of the event is provided.
Distance culturelle et préjugés à l’égard des immigrés en France : le rôle des modèles d’intégration
Revue Internationale De Psychologie Sociale-international Review of Social Psychology, 2015
L’objectif de cette recherche est de montrer que le lien entre la distance culturelle percue et l... more L’objectif de cette recherche est de montrer que le lien entre la distance culturelle percue et les prejuges envers les immigres depend de l’adhesion aux differents modeles d’integration. Nous presentons deux etudes : une enquete et une etude experimentale. Dans l’enquete, des Francais natifs remplissaient des mesures de perception de distance culturelle entre les differents groupes d’immigres et le groupe majoritaire francais, d’adhesion a differents modeles d’integration (assimilation, multiculturalisme) et de prejuges a l’egard des immigres. Les resultats montrent un lien positif entre la perception de la distance culturelle et les prejuges a l’egard des groupes. Ce lien est modere par l’adhesion aux differents modeles d’integration : chez les Francais qui adherent davantage a l’assimilation qu’au multiculturalisme, la perception d’une grande distance culturelle est associee a un niveau eleve de prejuges a l’egard des immigres. Ce lien est plus faible chez les Francais qui adhere...
On Predicting Actor’s Regret from Causal Attribution, Counterfactual Thinking and Type of Behavior Decision
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2016
L'explication naïve de l'action du point de vue de l'acteur et de l'observateur
Exceptionality effect is the widely cited phenomenon that people experience stronger regret regar... more Exceptionality effect is the widely cited phenomenon that people experience stronger regret regarding negative outcomes that are a result of more exceptional circumstances, compared to routine. We hypothesize that the exceptionality-routine attribution asymmetry would extend to attributions of freedom and responsibility. In Experiment 1 (N = 338), we found that people attributed more free will to exceptional behavior compared to routine, when the exception was due to self-choice rather than due to external circumstances. In Experiment 2 (N = 561), we replicated and generalized the effect of exceptionality on attributions of free will to other scenarios, with support for the classic exceptionality effect regarding regret and an extension to moral responsibility. In Experiment 3 (N = 128), we replicated these effects in a within-subject design. When using a classic experimental philosophy paradigm contrasting a deterministic and an indeterministic universe, we found that the results w...
Chapitre 4 - Le choix du mode de réduction
La dissonance cognitive, 2013
Les cahiers internationaux de psychologie sociale, 2011
Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Presses universitaires de Liège. © Presses universitair... more Distribution électronique Cairn.info pour Presses universitaires de Liège. © Presses universitaires de Liège. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays. La reproduction ou représentation de cet article, notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement. Toute autre reproduction ou représentation, en tout ou partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manière que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord préalable et écrit de l'éditeur, en dehors des cas prévus par la législation en vigueur en France. Il est précisé que son stockage dans une base de données est également interdit.
Review of General Psychology, 2007
Fritz Heider's theory of social perception is reviewed, and the close connection between attr... more Fritz Heider's theory of social perception is reviewed, and the close connection between attribution, balance, and unit relationship are examined, primarily through Heider's own writings. Attribution and balance have historically been considered separate theories, but the authors show how these two ideas, in conjunction with the idea of unit formation, create a broad-ranging and integrated theory of social perception. Attributions were seen by Heider as a particular kind of unit relationship, and people make attributions that preserve an affectively consistent view of others. The authors then show how this integrated understanding of Heider's ideas generates new predictions and informs a wide range of clinical, personality, and social psychological phenomena, as a reminder of the modern power of Heider's theory.
When Does Action Elicit More Regret Than Inaction and Is Counterfactual Mutation the Mediator of This Effect?
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1997
... 3. CT Burris and NR Branscombe, Racism, counterfactual thinking, and judgment severity. Journ... more ... 3. CT Burris and NR Branscombe, Racism, counterfactual thinking, and judgment severity. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 23 (1993), pp. 980995. ... 5. CG Davis, DR Lehman, CB Wortman, RC Silver and SC Thompson, The undoing of traumatic life events. ...
Mental Simulation and Causal Attribution: When Simulating an Event Does Not Affect Fault Assignment
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1995
Wells and Gavanski′s (1989) hypothesis that the feature of an event that is most mutable is also ... more Wells and Gavanski′s (1989) hypothesis that the feature of an event that is most mutable is also perceived as causal was reexamined on the assumption that this is not the general case. Using Copi′s (1982) analysis of the different processes involved in eliminating or producing an outcome, we propose that people focus on different aspects of events when they simulate
Counterfactual Thinking, Blame Assignment, and Well-Being in Rape Victims
Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 2003
... Severe and especially uncontrollable traumatic events shat-ter victims' basic as... more ... Severe and especially uncontrollable traumatic events shat-ter victims' basic assumptions about the ... on the depression inventory, self-esteem scale, and perceived control in life measure all ... Both of the counterfactual indicators loaded significantly on the counter-factual thinking ...
Recommending Action More Than Inaction When Either Decision Fails: Which Norm Underlies This Process?
The American Journal of Psychology, 2012
Norm theorists' assumption that action is abnorma... more Norm theorists' assumption that action is abnormal compared with inaction was revisited. Two experiments tested the opposite prediction, that action is construed as the descriptive norm and therefore is less mutable than inaction and should be more recommended for undoing a negative outcome. Participants both undid a person's negative outcome by recommending an alternative decision and rated the intensity of regret he or she was likely to feel. The focal outcomes were categorized as resulting from a conjunction of 4 decisions, including action, inaction, or a combination of both. An abnormality index was constructed based on the distance between the decision implemented and the decision recommended. Overall, action was most frequently recommended as an alternative to most of the other decisions. Mixed action-inaction instead of inaction was highly recommended as an alternative when action failed (Experiment 1), but when explicitly presented as the descriptive norm, inaction was highly recommended as an alternative to action (Experiment 2). The numeric distance between action and the recommended alternatives was shorter than that between inaction and its alternatives, suggesting that the former is normal. However, the actor was expected to experience regret of equal intensity regardless of how the outcome originated. The recommendation responses support the descriptive norm perspective.
Self and group protection concerns influence attributions but they are not determinants of counterfactual mutation focus
British Journal of Social Psychology, 1997