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Violate my beliefs? Then you're to blame! Belief content as an explanation for causal attribution biases
2012
Psychology and Aging
We examined the extent to which the content of beliefs about appropriate behavior in social situations influences blame attributions for negative outcomes in relationship situations. Young, middle-aged and older adults indicated their level of agreement to a set of traditional and nontraditional beliefs. Five months later, we assessed the degree to which these same individuals blamed traditional and nontraditional characters who violated their beliefs in twelve social conflict situations. Older
doi:10.1037/a0024423
pmid:21728442
pmcid:PMC3248998
fatcat:tyi5nfsdmbbxritbl524p76wxm