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Pfaff’s lab has published more than 900 research papers, and he has written or edited more than 25 books. Pfaff conceived and edited a comprehensive survey of neuroscience, Neuroscience in the 21st Century, [11] which was distributed electronically without cost, to colleges and medical schools in economically developing countries. [12]
Attribution theory is the original parent theory with Harold Kelley's covariation model and Bernard Weiner's three-dimensional model branching from Attribution theory. Attribution theory also influenced several other theories as well such as Heider's Perceived Locus of Causality which eventually led to Deci and Ryan's Theory of Self-determination.
He also explained that this tendency was rooted in a need to maintain a positive self-concept, later termed the self-serving bias. Kelley's covariation model also led to the acknowledgment of attribution biases. [11] The model explained the conditions under which people will make informed dispositional versus situational attributions.
Before Fiske and Taylor's cognitive miser theory, the predominant model of social cognition was the naïve scientist. First proposed in 1958 by Fritz Heider in The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations , this theory holds that humans think and act with dispassionate rationality whilst engaging in detailed and nuanced thought processes for both ...
Implicit personality theory describes the specific patterns and biases an individual uses when forming impressions based on a limited amount of initial information about an unfamiliar person. [1] While there are parts of the impression formation process that are context-dependent, individuals also tend to exhibit certain tendencies in forming ...
Harold Kelley (February 16, 1921 – January 29, 2003) was an American social psychologist and professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.His major contributions have been the development of interdependence theory (with John Thibaut), [1] [2] the early work of attribution theory, [3] and a lifelong interest in understanding close relationships processes.
Several theories predict the fundamental attribution error, and thus both compete to explain it, and can be falsified if it does not occur. Some examples include: Just-world fallacy. The belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get, the concept of which was first theorized by Melvin J. Lerner in 1977. [11]
Attributions for poverty is a theory concerned with what people believe about the causes of poverty.These beliefs are defined in terms of attribution theory, which is a social psychological perspective on how people make causal explanations about events in the world. [1]