“It was right to do it, because .. .”

Gollan, Tobias; Witte, Erich H.

doi:10.1027/1864-9335.39.3.189

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“…As Malle notes, there have not only been misinterpretations of PIR ; there have also been important omissions. To use the words of Gollan and Witte (this issue), the theoretical richness of PIR has not been fully explored. Furthermore, only very few authors (e.g., Laucken, 1974; Smedslund, 1988) have followed Heider in his attempt to provide a somewhat comprehensive analysis of common-sense psychology.…”

Section: On the History Of Attribution Researchmentioning

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The Discovery of Common-Sense Psychology

Reisenzein

Rudolph

2008

Social Psychology

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This special issue of Social Psychology commemorates the 50th anniversary of Fritz Heider’s 1958 book The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations. The contributions to the special issue address the history and current state of attribution research, or illustrate contemporary research in the field. The historical articles document that Heider’s analysis of causal attribution and of common-sense psychology was significantly influenced by his academic teachers Alexius Meinong and Ernst Cassirer. We distinguish between the mainstream reception of Heider’s book, which has given rise to an extensive empirical research program, and a minority reception by authors who emphasized aspects of Heider’s thinking not well represented in mainstream psychology. Currently, there are indications of a “back to Heider” movement in social psychology. This new phase of attribution research is inspired by a fresh reading of Heider’s book, and is marked by an interdisciplinary orientation. The articles illustrating current attribution research address both classic and novel topics: the causality implicit in language, the role of causal attribution in hindsight bias, the justification of actions, and the attribution of mistakes in organizational contexts.

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The Discovery of Common-Sense Psychology

Reisenzein

Rudolph

2008

Social Psychology

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“…Just as individuals vary in personality traits, motives or value preferences, real situations differ in certain (mostly unknown) dimensions and can be categorized into various classes. Gollan and Witte (2008) relate value laden situations to Heider's concept of situational ought (1958). We further assume that the content structure of values that Schwartz (1992) found in the variance between individuals can also be applied to the variance between situations.…”

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“…It is, however, not easy to relate the resulting categories to the ethical principles elaborated in moral philosophy (Strack & Gennerich, 2007). More in line with moral philosophy, Witte and Doll (1995;Gollan & Witte, 2008) proposed taxonomy of four principles: utilitarianism, deontology, intuitionism and hedonism. The results of their study…”

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“…3) The third option -the scenario applied in this study -is a blending of influences from both the persons involved and the situation at hand. While only preliminary attempts have been made to address these questions empirically (Witte & Doll, 1995;Gollan & Witte, 2008), there exists a good deal of psychological research on value preferences (Rokeach, 1973;Schwartz, 1992Schwartz, , 2011 and some independent work on the assessment of the usage of ethical principles (Fraedrich, & Ferrell, 1992;Forsyth & Nye, 1990;Witte & Doll, 1995).…”

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Personal and situational values predict ethical reasoning

Strack

Gennerich

2011

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In interpersonal value conflicts ethical principles are employed to justify own actions.However, there is competition among ethical principles. Therefore the preference for a specific ethical principle may be merely a function both of personal values and of the value-laden situations in which actions are made. A German sample of 132 participants rated their agreement on ten justifications in seven experimentally constructed situations. The situations varied in their expression of values, organized by the value circle (Schwartz, 1992). The justifications assess five ethical principles (deontology, utilitarianism, partiality, hedonism, and intuitionism). Variance components of the agreement ratings were separated using GLM and plotted in the value circle. Preferences for ethical principles depended on both the value content of situations and the responder values. The Person x Situation interaction was not significant. The results illustrate the difficulties in gaining agreement on arguments among individuals with conflicting values.

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“…sonal Relations (1958). Guest editors Rainer Reisenzein and Udo Rudolph (2008) brought together a beautiful collection of essays and research papers celebrating Heider's lasting legacy, including contributions on the history of attribution research (e.g., Schönpflug, 2008;Smedslund, 2008;Weiner, 2008) as well as articles addressing current issues in attribution research (e.g., Gollan & Witte, 2008;Rudolph, 2008;Schyns & Hansbrough, 2008). I am particularly pleased to note that a wide reception of this special issue was facilitated by a promotional activity of Hogrefe publishers: electronic full-text versions of all articles have been made available free of charge for all, so please do encourage colleagues to view the issue at www.psycontent.com/content/1864-9335.…”

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