Distinguishing Attributions of Causality, Moral Responsibility, and Blame: Perceivers' Evaluations of the Attributions

Bell, Brad E.

doi:10.2224/sbp.1989.17.2.231

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“…Women might have attempted to judge their husbands as being responsible before blaming them, but at the same time they might also have blamed their husbands directly without taking into account various criteria of responsibility. In a different experimental context (which consisted of two brief scenarios involving negligent acts), Bell (1989) concluded that attribution of blame toward perpetrators may not involve the subprocess of evaluating moral responsibility. In the context of close relationships, women have often been considered to be the barometer of the relationship.…”

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“…There will be no significant path from causality and responsibility to marital adjustment. The justification of this second hypothesis was based mainly on the results of several studies in which the entailment model was applied to negligent acts and moral behaviors; these studies demonstrated that external outcomes are predicted by blame attributions and that the effects of causal and responsibility attributions on these outcomes are mediated by blame attributions (Bell, 1989; Shultz et al, 1986).…”

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On causality, responsibility, and blame in marriage: Validity of the entailment model.

Lussier¹,

Sabourin²,

Wright³

1993

Journal of Family Psychology

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We examined the entailment model of attributions in close relationships (F. D. Fincham & T. N. Bradbury, 1987a) using structural equation modeling. In this model, judgments of causality lead to judgments of responsibility, which in turn determine judgments of blame. The sample consisted of 206 married or cohabiting couples who completed the Conflict Rating Scale and the Dyadic Adjustment Scale. The path analyses conducted with LISREL VII supported the value of an entailment conceptualization for both self (women and men) and spouse attributions (men only). As hypothesized, for men the paths among causality, responsibility, blame, and marital adjustment confirmed the mediating role of responsibility and blame attributions. For women, small direct pathways leading to marital satisfaction were found, as well as 2 large indirect pathways specified by the entailment model.

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On causality, responsibility, and blame in marriage: Validity of the entailment model.

Lussier¹,

Sabourin²,

Wright³

1993

Journal of Family Psychology

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“…Although these models hold that there is a clear relation between moral responsibility and blame, there is a dissenting perspective that indicates that responsibility and blame are more distinct (Bell, 1989;Brems & Wagner, 1994). Specifically, based on empirical findings of perceiver ratings of negligent actions, the authors concluded that moral responsibility is likely not evaluated in the process of assigning blame and that responsibility is in fact a more complex process.…”

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Blame Attribution as a Moderator of Perceptions of Sexual Orientation—Based Hate Crimes

Cramer

Chandler

Wakeman

2009

J Interpers Violence

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Blame attribution is a valuable mechanism explaining decision making. However, present literature mainly employs blame attribution as a dependent variable. The shortcoming of this fact is that blame attribution offers a potentially valuable explanatory mechanism for decision making. The authors designed two studies to investigate blame attribution as a moderator of sentencing decisions in sexual orientation-based hate crimes. Study 1 showed that mock jurors punished perpetrators of hate crimes more severely than a control condition. Also, degree of victim blame influenced punitive decision making. In Study 2, mock jurors extended findings that perpetrators of hate crimes are more harshly punished than those of other types of crimes. Victim and perpetrator blame failed to moderate decision making in this more complex scenario. Results are discussed in relation to hate crimes definitions and attribution theory.

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“…II apparaît plausible d’émettre l’hypothése qu’à la fois les variables d’attribution et les indices de détresse psychologique seront associés de facon significative aux cotes d’ajustement dyadique. De plus, en se basant sur plusieurs recherches qui ont appliqué le modéle emboîté des attributions à l’étude de divers comportements de négligence, de préjudice et de colére (Bell, 1989; Fincham & Bradbury, 1992; Shultz, Wright, & Scheilfer, 1986), il y a tout lieu de croire que le blâme sera la variable d’attribution la plus étroitement reliée à l’ajustement conjugal, comparativement à la causalité et à la responsabilité. Également, selon le modéle multidimensionnel de la détresse psychologique, nous croyons que des indices de santé mentale autres que la dépression (par ex., agressivité, anxiété et problémes cognitifs) viendront expliquer une portion significative de la variance associée à l’ajustement conjugal.…”

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Adaptation conjugale: le rôle des attributions et de la détresse psychologique.

Gélinas¹,

Lussier²,

Sabourin³

1995

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des

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Resume L'objectif de la presente £tude est d'exatniner les relations entre les attributions, la detresse psychologique et l'adaptation conjugale. L'echantillon se compose de 124 couples qu£b6cois. Les resultats reVelent que les attributions de la causalite, de la responsabilit£ et du blame dirigees h l'endroit du partenaire sont reliees n^gativement a ('adaptation conjugale. Par ailleurs, plus les conjoints rapportent des symptomes de depression, d'anxiet^, d'agressivite 1 et des problemes de nature cognitive, moins leur degrg d'adaptation conjugale est eleve'. L'analyse simultanee des contributions de ces deux groupes de variables, attributionnelles et symptomatologiques, montre que l'anxtete, la depression, les troubles cognirifs et les attributions du blSme de la femme sont associees a son degre d'adaptation conjugale. De plus, les attributions de la causalite formulees par le mari de meme que ses symptomes de depression constituent des variables relives a l'adaptation conjugale de la femme. Cet examen simultan£ revele aussi que la depression, les attributions de la causalite et les attributions du blame de l'homme sont associees a son degre d'adaptation a la vie de couple. Enfin, les attributions de la causality formulees par l'epouse, ainsi que son degr6 d'agressivite et de depression sont assories a ('adaptation conjugale de l'homme.

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Distinguishing Attributions of Causality, Moral Responsibility, and Blame: Perceivers' Evaluations of the Attributions

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

On causality, responsibility, and blame in marriage: Validity of the entailment model.

On causality, responsibility, and blame in marriage: Validity of the entailment model.

Blame Attribution as a Moderator of Perceptions of Sexual Orientation—Based Hate Crimes

Adaptation conjugale: le rôle des attributions et de la détresse psychologique.

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