MOTIVATED INFERENCE - SELF-SERVING GENERATION AND EVALUATION OF CAUSAL THEORIES
MOTIVATED INFERENCE - SELF-SERVING GENERATION AND EVALUATION OF CAUSAL THEORIES
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-3514.53.4.636
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发表时间：
1987-10-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
KUNDA, Z
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作者：
KUNDA, Z
四项研究的结果表明，人们倾向于以一种自我服务的方式产生和评估因果理论：他们产生的理论认为自己的属性更能预测理想的结果，他们不愿意相信将自己的属性与不良事件联系起来的理论。因此，人们倾向于持有与乐观信念相一致的理论，即好事会发生在他们身上，坏事不会发生。我认为，这些自我服务的偏见是最好的解释，从动机引导的认知过程，因为它们不会发生在没有动机的压力。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2016阿帕，保留所有权利）
The results of four studies suggest that people tend to generate and evaluate causal theories in a self-serving manner: They generate theories that view their own attributes as more predictive of desirable outcomes, and they are reluctant to believe in theories relating their own attributes to undesirable events. As a consequence, people tend to hold theories that are consistent with the optimistic belief that good things will happen to them and bad things will not. I argue that these self-serving biases are best explained as resulting from cognitive processes guided by motivation because they do not occur in the absence of motivational pressures.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)