Reducing Automatic Stereotype Activation: Mechanisms and Moderators of Situational Attribution Training
Individuals tend to underestimate situational causes and overly rely on trait causes in explaining negative behaviors of outgroup members, a tendency named the ultimate attribution error (Pettigrew, 1979). This attributional pattern is directly related to stereotyping, because attributing negative b...
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Digital Archive @ GSU
2010
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| Online Access: | http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/psych_diss/72 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1073&context=psych_diss |