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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 3, 242-247 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/014616727600200307
© 1976 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Actors Rely on Distinctiveness and Observers Rely on Consensus: Two Causal Schemata

Ranald D. Hansen

Oakland University

An integrative model was offered to specify a theo retical link between Kelley's (1967) analysis of variance model of attribution processes and Jones and Nisbett's (1971) discus sion of divergent actor and observer attributional tendencies. Specifically, two different causal schemata were proposed to account for actors' preference for environmental attributions based on distinctiveness and observers' preference for personal attributions based on consensus information. Further, empirical discrepancies with regard to observers' use of consensus were explained by distinguishing between normative and autonomously generated consensus information.


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