Assesses how causal attributions influence emotional responses to success and failure, indicating psychological effects in achievement contexts.
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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McFarland et al. (1982) studied this question.
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