The Development of Mastery, Emotions, and Morality from an Attributional Perspective

Attribution theory is now entering its second decade as the dominant paradigm in social psychology. Its predecessor, dissonance theory, was replaced for a number of reasons, the primary one being the greater range of phenomena to which an attributional analysis could be applied. This theoretical robustness is demonstrated in extensions of attribution theory beyond the confines of social psychology. For example, personality psychologists...