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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 4, 719-727 (1982)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167282084019
© 1982 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Cognitive Accessibility and Causal Attributions

William S. Rholes

Texas A&M University

John B. Pryor

University of Notre Dame

Previous research has suggested that the relative accessibility of concepts in long term memory influences person perception judgments. The present study examined the effects of the accessibility of causal agents on attributions. The results indicated that causes that are more accessible in memory are given more weight in causal judgments than less accessible causes and that the impact of accessibility is moderated by the nature of the covariation information associated with an attributional problem.


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