Cognitive Accessibility and Causal Attributions
- 1 December 1982
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 8 (4) , 719-727
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167282084019
Abstract
Previous research has suggested that the relative accessibility of concepts in long term memory influences person perception judgments. The present study examined the effects of the accessibility of causal agents on attributions. The results indicated that causes that are more accessible in memory are given more weight in causal judgments than less accessible causes and that the impact of accessibility is moderated by the nature of the covariation information associated with an attributional problem.Keywords
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