Preschoolers' and Adults' Attributions of Who Causes Interpersonal Events

Infant and Child Development

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 305-328

  Corrigan, Roberta ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Department of Educational Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141484347     PISSN: 15227227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/icd.291     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Bartsch K, Wellman H. 1989. Young children's attribution of action to beliefs and desires. Child Development 60: 946-964.
2. Cain K, Heyman G, Walker M. 1997. Preschoolers' ability to make dispositional predictions within and across domains. Social Development 6: 57-75.
3. Corrigan R. 1995. The understanding of events in infancy and early childhood. In Social Development Eisenberg N (ed). Thousand Oaks, CA; Sage: pp. 1-26.
4. Corrigan R. in press. The influence of evaluation and potency on perceivers' causal attributions. European Journal of Social Psychology.
5. Corrigan R. 2001. Implicit causality in language: Event participants and their interactions. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 20: 285-320.
6. Corrigan R, Denton, P. 1996. Children's understanding of causality. Developmental Review 16 162-202.
7. DiVesta F, Stauber K. 1971. Identification of verbal concepts by preschool children. Developmental Psychology 5: 81-85.
8. Dyson A. 1997. Writing Superheroes: Contemporary Childhood, Popular Culture, and Classroom Literacy. Teachers College Press: New York.
9. Fiske S. 1993. Controlling other people: The impact of power on stereotyping. American Psychologist 48: 621-628.
10. Flavell J, Miller P. 1998. Social cognition. In Handbook of Child Psychology, vol. 2, Cognition, Perception, and Language. Kuhn D, Siegler R (eds) Wiley: New York.
11. Georgesen J, Harris M. 2000. The balance of power: Interpersonal consequences of differential power and expectancies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 26: 1239-257.
12. Hala S, Carpendale J. 1997. All in the mind: Children's understanding of mental life. In The Development of Social Cognition. Hala S (ed.). Psychology Press: East Sussex, UK.
13. Heyman G. 2001. Children's reasoning about evaluative traits. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, April.
14. Heyman G, Gelman S. 1998. Young children use motive information to make trait inferences. Developmental Psychology 34: 310-321.
15. Heyman G, Gelman S. 1999. The use of trait labels in making psychological inferences. Child Development 70: 604-619.
16. Heyman C, Dweck C, Cain K. 1992. Young children's vulnerability to self-blame and helplessness: Relationship to beliefs about goodness. Child Development 63: 401-415.
17. Keil F. 2000. The origins of developmental psychology. Journal of Cognition and Development 1: 347-357.
18. Kinderman P, Dunbar R, Bentall R. 1998. Theory of mind deficits and causal attributions. British Journal of Psychology 89: 191-204.
19. Lupfer M, Weeks M, DuPuis S. 2000. How pervasive is the negativity bias in judgments based on character appraisal? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 26: 1353-1366.
20. Mehrabian A. 1980. Basic Dimensions for a General Psychological Theory. Implications for Personality, Social, Environmental, and Developmental Studies. Cambridge, MA, Oelges-chlager, Gunn & Hain.
21. Miller P. 1985. Children's reasoning about the causes of human behavior. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 39: 342-362.
22. Miller P, Aloise P. 1989. Young children's understanding of the psychological causes of behavior: A review. Child Development 60: 257-285.
23. Osgood C, Suci G, Tannenbaum P. 1957. The Measurement of Meaning University of Illinois Press: Urbana, IL.
24. Pomerantz E, Newman L. 2000. Looking in on the children: Using Developmental Psychology as a tool for hypothesis testing and model building in social psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review 4: 300-316.
25. Ruble D, Dweck C. 1995. Self-conceptions, person conceptions, and their development. Review of Personality and Social Psychology 15:109-139.
26. Salz E, Medow M. 1971. Concept conservation in children: The dependence of belief systems on semantic representation. Child Development 42: 1533-1542.
27. Schult C, Wellman H. 1997. Explaining human movements and actions: Children's understanding of the limits of psychological explanation. Cognition 62: 291-324.
28. Skowronski J, Carlston D. 1989. Negativity and extremity biases in impression formation: A review of explanations. Psychological Bulletin 105: 131-142.
29. Tesser A, Martin, L. 1996. The psychology of evaluation. In Social Psychology: Handbook of Basic Principles, Higgins E T, Kruglanski A (eds). Guilford: New York, NY.
30. Vonk R. 1993. Individual differences and common dimensions in implicit personality theory. British Journal of Social Psychology 32: 209-226.
31. Vonk R. 1994. Trait inferences, impression formation, and person memory. In European Review of Social Psychology, vol. 5, Stroebe W, Hewstone M (eds). Wiley: Chichester, UK; 111-149.
32. Vonk R. 1995. Effects of inconsistent behaviors on person impressions: A multidimensional study. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 21: 674-685.
33. Vonk R. 1996. Negativity and potency effects in impression formation. European Journal of Social Psychology 26: 851.
34. Vonk R. 1998. Effects of behavioral causes and consequences on person judgments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 10: 1065-1074.
35. Wellman H. 1990. The Child's Theory of Mind. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
36. White P 1995. The Understanding of Causality and the Production of Action. Erlbaum: Hillsdale, NJ.
37. Wiggins J. 1991. Agency and communion as conceptual coordinates for the understanding and measurement of interpersonal behavior. In Thinking Clearly about Psychology, vol. 2. Personality and Psychopathology, Grove W, Cichetti D (eds), University of Minnesota Press: Minneapolis, MN.
38. Yuill N. 1997a. Children's understanding of traits. In The Development of Social Cognition, Hala S (ed.). Psychology Press: East Sussex, UK.
39. Yuill N. 1997b. English children as personality theorists: accounts of the modifiability, development, and origin of traits. Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs 12: 7-26.