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Peer reviewedMurray, Carolyn B.; Warden, M. Robert – Journal of Social Psychology, 1992
Presents questionnaire results concerning self-handicapping, course-related expectancies, and study habits. Reports that self-handicappers were more likely than others to make external and unstable attributions. Concludes that the underlying cognitive mechanism of self-handicapping strategies is a defensive attributional pattern that protects an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Defense Mechanisms, Educational Research, Fear of Success
Peer reviewedNurmi, Jari-Erik – Journal of Social Psychology, 1992
Presents results of a study of cultural differences in causal attributions and self-serving bias. Reports more self-serving attributional bias among U.S. than Finn students. Suggests that cultural differences in self-serving bias may result from differences in need to protect self-esteem, coping mechanisms, and cultural differences in coping with…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Bias, Coping
