Date of Award

Spring 1979

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Psychology

Program/Concentration

Psychology

Committee Director

Robert J. Gould

Committee Member

Louis Janda

Committee Member

Donna Boswell

Committee Member

Barry Gillen

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.P65S465

Abstract

Equal numbers of male and female subjects succeeded or failed on an anagram task and made causal attributions explaining their outcomes. Actual outcome was manipulated by varying the difficulty of the anagram task. Half of the subjects were led to believe their scores and ratings would remain private, whereas the other subjects were told they would participate in a group discussion about scores and causal explanations. Manipulation of anticipated privacy level had little effect under conditions of success, but after failure female subjects made relatively modest attributions in the public condition and relatively self-aggrandizing attributions in private. The attributions of males remained constant across public and private failure. Results were interpreted in terms of self-presentation needs.

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DOI

10.25777/qczc-4k85

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