Professor Scott Plous

Social Psychology Wesleyan University

FURTHER READINGS AND VIEWINGS

Lecture 2.1: Attribution Theory: The Whys and
Wherefores of Behavior

Works Cited or Referred To

(1) Heider, F. (1958). The psychology of interpersonal relations. New York: Wiley.

(2) Kelley, H. H. (1973). The processes of causal attribution. American Psychologist, 28,
107-128.

(3) Lassiter, G. D., Geers, A. L., Handley, I. M., Weiland, P. E., & Munhall, P. J. (2002).
Videotaped interrogations and confessions: A simple change in camera perspective alters
verdicts in simulated trials. Journal of Applied Psychology, 87, 867-874.

(4) Taylor, S. E., & Fiske, S. (1978). Salience, attention, and attribution: Top of the head
phenomena. In L. Berkowitz (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 11,
pp. 249-288). New York: Academic Press.

(5) Weiner, B. (1986). An attributional theory of motivation and emotion (reprint ed.). New
York: Springer-Verlag.

Related Wikipedia Entries

(1) Attribution theory: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribution_theory

(2) Salience: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salience_(neuroscience)

(3) False confession: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_confession

Social Psychologists and Other Researchers Mentioned

(1) Fritz Heider: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Heider

(2) Harold Kelley: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Kelley

(3) Bernard Weiner: http://weiner.socialpsychology.org/

(4) Shelley Taylor: http://shelley.taylor.socialpsychology.org/

(5) Susan Fiske: http://fiske.socialpsychology.org/