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The role of causal attribution in hurt feelings and related social emotions elicited in reaction to other's feedback about failure
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- 10.1080/02699930701541641
pages 862-880
Available online: 24 Jun 2008Abstract
The present research addressed the question of what it is that makes certain types of feedback on the reasons for failure hurtful. The results of two studies demonstrated that the causal structure implied by an explanation for failure explains the degree to which the explanation is perceived as hurtful and likely to elicit anger, shame, and guilt. In contrast, the perceived validity of the explanations is of relatively less importance for the elicitation of hurt feelings and anger than the content of the explanation. Overall, these results provide further evidence for the importance of attributional information for social emotions, whereas the validity of the information had a relatively lesser effect.
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- Available online: 24 Jun 2008
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- a University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
- b University of Quebec, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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