Do People Agree about the Causes of Behavior? A Social Relations Analysis of Behavior Ratings and Causal Attributions

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 334-344

  Robins, Richard W ^a   Connell, Joanie B ^b   Mendelsohn, Gerald A ^a,c   Kwan, Virginia S Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALLIANT INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1342303763     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.86.2.334     Document Type: Article

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