Harold Kelley

"SALIENCE The notion here is that an effect is attributed to the cause that is most salient in the perceptual field at the time the effect is observed."

"Attributional research shows that attributions affect our feelings about past events and our expectations about future ones, our attitudes toward other persons and our reactions to their behavior, and…"

"PRIMACY The general notion here is that a person scans and interprets a sequence of information until he attains an attribution from it and then disregards later information or assimilates it to his e…"

"A person is known by the behavior he displays consistently. An experiment by Himmelfarb makes the important point that consistency in other persons' characterizations of an actor carries more weight i…"

"The last decade has seen a great deal of research on the perception of causation and the consequences of such perception. Conducted primarily within social psychology, the focus has been the perceived…"

"Am I to take my enjoyment of a movie as a basis for an attribution to the movie or for an attribution to myself ? The inference as to where to locate the dispositional properties responsible for the e…"

"My purpose in this paper is to highlight some of the central ideas contained in Heider's theory, to present them in a systematic way, and to show their relevance to developments in several central fie…"

"is probably associated with assumptions that there is a distribution of opinion toward the task, and only the more favorable subjects complied in the $1 case and almost all, favorable or not, complied…"