Explaining own and others' behavior in a controversial issue: Animal experimentation.
(2001) In Journal of Social Psychology 141(6). p.693-713- Abstract
- The authors investigated how 2 groups with different attitudes toward animal experimentation-- researchers who conducted animal experiments and members of animal welfare organizations who protested against animal experiments-- made attributions for the behavior of the opposing group. The 2 groups showed an actor-observer effect, mentioning more internal causes for the opponents' behavior and more external causes for their own behavior. Both groups were able to take the other's perspective, resulting in a reversed actor-observer effect. The less involved participants followed the pattern of ratings of the group whose attitudes corresponded to their own. In particular, the participants with a negative attitude toward animal experimentation... (More)
- The authors investigated how 2 groups with different attitudes toward animal experimentation-- researchers who conducted animal experiments and members of animal welfare organizations who protested against animal experiments-- made attributions for the behavior of the opposing group. The 2 groups showed an actor-observer effect, mentioning more internal causes for the opponents' behavior and more external causes for their own behavior. Both groups were able to take the other's perspective, resulting in a reversed actor-observer effect. The less involved participants followed the pattern of ratings of the group whose attitudes corresponded to their own. In particular, the participants with a negative attitude toward animal experimentation rated researchers' behavior as more internally caused than did those with a positive attitude. The results illustrated how the participants formed and defended attitudes in a social context. (Less)
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- Blom Kemdal, Anna LU and Montgomery, Henry
- publishing date
- 2001-12
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- animal experimentation, actor-observer effect, attitude, attribution
- in
- Journal of Social Psychology
- volume
- 141
- issue
- 6
- article number
- 2002-00656-001
- pages
- 21 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:0035528381
- ISSN
- 0022-4545
- DOI
- 10.1080/00224540109600582
- language
- English
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- 4f730f7c-d87c-42e9-8d3e-88687ae1bff7
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title = {{Explaining own and others' behavior in a controversial issue: Animal experimentation.}},
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