Impact of causal attributions on affective reactions to success and failure.
McFarland, Cathy, Ross, Michael·1982·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Abstract
Assessed the impact of outcome (success vs failure) and attribution (internal vs external) on affect in an achievement setting. Following the theorizing of B. Weiner et al (1978, 1979), it was anticipated that the outcome manipulation would determine general positive and negative affective reactions
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