TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding Variations in Judgments of Infidelity
T2 - An Application of Attribution Theory
AU - Thompson, Ashley E.
AU - O’Sullivan, Lucia F.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2017/9/3
Y1 - 2017/9/3
N2 - The current program of research examined how the four dimensions of the attribution (locus of causality, controllability, stability, intentionality) influenced judgments of a partner’s hypothetical infidelity and actor-observer discrepancies associated with judgments of real-life infidelity. The results from Study 1 (N = 396) revealed that the dimensions of the attribution affected the extent to which adults’ judged a partner’s hypothetical behavior as indicative of infidelity differently depending on the type of behavior. When reporting on real-life behavior (Study 2, N = 802), adults attributed the cause of their partner’s infidelity as being a result of internal, controllable, stable, and intentional causes to a greater extent than when judging their own infidelity.
AB - The current program of research examined how the four dimensions of the attribution (locus of causality, controllability, stability, intentionality) influenced judgments of a partner’s hypothetical infidelity and actor-observer discrepancies associated with judgments of real-life infidelity. The results from Study 1 (N = 396) revealed that the dimensions of the attribution affected the extent to which adults’ judged a partner’s hypothetical behavior as indicative of infidelity differently depending on the type of behavior. When reporting on real-life behavior (Study 2, N = 802), adults attributed the cause of their partner’s infidelity as being a result of internal, controllable, stable, and intentional causes to a greater extent than when judging their own infidelity.
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U2 - 10.1080/01973533.2017.1350578
DO - 10.1080/01973533.2017.1350578
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85027843086
SN - 0197-3533
VL - 39
SP - 262
EP - 276
JO - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
JF - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
IS - 5
ER -