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Hilton, Denis J.; Slugoski, Ben R. – Psychological Review, 1986
A model grounded in recent ordinary language philosophy is proposed which postulates that subjects employ counterfactual and contrastive criteria of causal ascription, as unified in the notion of an abnormal condition. Two experiments satisfy the three criteria specified for an adequate test of the abnormal conditions focus model. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Adults, Analysis of Variance, Attribution Theory, Discourse Analysis