Perceived Locus of Causality as a Variable Affecting Use of Emotional Words
- 1 August 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 57 (1) , 127-131
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1983.57.1.127
Abstract
The role of locus of causality (attribution: self, none or other) and event outcome (success or failure) in the use of emotional words was addressed when 129 subjects rated 20 emotions in terms of how strongly they would feel them in 6 imaginary situations. Significant main effects were associated with outcome (for 17 words) and with locus of causality (10 words). The interaction of locus and outcome was also significant (5 times). Parallels are drawn between the dimensions of attribution (including locus) and the dimensions of affective space.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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